If there is any hope to come one day, out of the psychic illusion, and More generally, the false illusions that nourish science is less direct than the opposition by means of a proper education, a health preventive trial. Teaching young people critical thinking, the guard against falsehood, speech and print, creating in them a spiritual ground where credulity can take root, teach them what it is coincidence, probability, reasoning justification, logical emotional, unconscious resistance to truth, make them understand what a fact and what is a proof (...). I remember in my teens (...) when a person told me a story before "supernormal" I did not feel right systematically refuse his testimony. Autodidact
of disbelief, I learned, I realized gradually that many books are merely trained to lie, there are entire libraries of lies, that the smartest people and more educated people who are not in this area, say less nonsense and spread the fewest mistakes. I learned that nothing, ever, happened as reported, that even loyal and unselfish, always fantasizing a witness inadvertently, unknowingly, I learned to suspect across the small deformation involuntary and invisible, which is enough to distort everything and prevent a "fact" to be a fact ...
But this achievement, this treasure of skepticism, it is unfortunately impossible to connect directly to others.
And, when worn by itself, it seems to suffer from a neurotic sort of doubt, then we simply have no confidence that the minimum required.
Jean Rostand
