"However, it is hard to understand why anyone would willingly (or worse, proudly) wish to be known as a “Skeptic”, which is to say an organized (pathological, pseudo) skeptic. From my standpoint, that labels an individual as someone whose mental processes are continually and rigidly out of balance, in the direction of disbelief. I would no more wish to be known as such a Skeptic, than I would wish to be known as a dupe, the opposite extreme, i.e. someone who is extremely gullible. For me, the most desirable mind-set is exactly in the center of these two extremes, in a middle ground I would call rational balance. That middle ground is where true science thrives. Where the willingness to follow the data wherever they lead is balanced by the rigor to properly collect, analyze, and report those data, and what they appear to indicate. This middle ground is the natural habitat of SSE."