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If scientists are closed minded, they will reject legitimate theories and discoveries just because they are new, and they conflict with previous theories. And when legitimate theories are rejected due to an excess of skepticism, science fails to advance. If, however, scientists are overly credulous, and do not apply an appropriate degree of skepticism to new claims, they will wind up wasting their time investigating an endless series of pseudo-scientific, crackpot theories, and they will never have time to make actual scientific progress. It is necessary to be able to reject nonsense rapidly, in order to avoid wasting time on it, while not being too hasty in rejecting theories which, when investigated, will prove to have a legitimate basis. So, it's a balancing act. One must avoid going to extremes, either of open mindedness or of skepticism. This is true not only for scientists, but for everyone.

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