Skepticism

I have long described myself as suspicious of all authority, but listening to one very observant and clever person today, perhaps that is not so. At the moment I am distressed by much of what I see on the Identity Politics side and I am 75% on the traditional side in the very public Culture Wars.  The short version is that I am not so much in favor of the traditions of 50-100 years ago as those farther back. I am not skeptical about science and the scientific method, but I am skeptical about scientists, particularly when they move off their specialty and start talking politics. 

I should rethink the whole generalisation.