Professional Skeptics

The normal concept of skepticism it's not any kind of a problem for mankind or for human civilization. A certain amount of skepticism is basically healthy and prevents people from going down rabbit holes or getting burned by bad ideas that are similar to things which may have created problems in the past.

Professional Skeptics , on the other hand, are hugely problematical. These are the people who frequent things like sci.sceptic on usenet or whose name you see in magazines whose titles that include the word " skeptic". The worst cases more or less involve something similar to a claim of omniscience; that is, a clam of having the knowledge and background to "debunk" every new idea that ever comes down the road. A couple of thousand years ago , that would have gotten one of them burned or crucified for blasphemy and few would have felt sorry for them,

In recent times , such characters are frequently seen posing as defenders of the purity of science , particularly in cases involving scientific heresies such as those involving the late Immanuel Velikovsky and/or electric universe (EU) theories.

One such wanker with a fairly substantial YouTube following claims to have debunked all of the major ideas of EU.

The problem with that is that space-age findings are increasingly turning up major Cosmic phenomena which are OBVIOUSLY electrical in nature and which gravity and other weak forces could not conceivably cause or create. A few examples should suffice:

Laniakea, our local super-cluster of galaxies

Every point of light in this image is an entire galaxy, our own Milky Way spiral galaxy being hidden under the small red dot. The entire thing is obviously an electrical breakdown, basically a lightning srike on a gargantuan scale.

Herbig/Haro Strings

Mainstream astronomers refer to these things as"jets". Nonetheless , real Jets of dust or plasma would dissipate very quickly in the near vacuum of space . Moreover, close observation invariably shows these things to be lines of round objects , you're basically seeing stars being formed up at the electromagnetic pinch points of Birkeland currents ( those electromagnetic pinch points DO have the power to agglomerate the plasma of space into more solid objects , typically stars and protostars).

Birkeland currents:

The Ganymede Hypothesis describes the manner in which our own solar system was formed originally as such a Herbig/Haro String and why that accounts for Four of the bodies in our system having roughly identical near 26-degree axis tilts.

Ganymede Hypothesis, quick intro:

Strings of Galaxies

Masinstreasm astronomy has no explanation for strings of galaxies, there being no way that gravity couldf create such a thing. What we are actually seeing in this case is the exact same phenomenon as a Herbig/Haro string, but on a monsterously larger scale. In this case what is forming up at the pinch points of the Birkeland Current are entire galaxies and not just stars:

The Galaxy string thus created retains the spiral form of the Birkeland current , as actually do Herbig/Haro strings. The spiral form is a bit more easily seen in the case of the Galaxy string due to the larger scale.

Sun Spots

Mainstream astronomers maintain that stars are thermonuclear engines. That has turned out to be very far from correct. What we actually see is electrical tufting , a sunspot being an area on the surface of the star in which the electrical activity breaks down. Stars are basically light bulbs , powered by the same kinds of electrical currents that create Herbig/Haro strings. if our sun were any kind of a thermonuclear engine, sunspots would be blue or white , and not black. That is, the heat would come from the core and temperatures would simply decrease as you got progressively further from the core.

Spiral Galaxies

Ordinary spiral galaxies such as ours are more than difficult enough for mainstream (gravity-only) astronomers to explain (and result in their talking about ridiculous things like "dark matter). But, again, there ARE spiral galaxies in which the problemis OBVIOUS. For instance NGC 6872:

The arms, particularly the upper arm, show material being held in a straight line until some point at which the field breaks down, after which material very quickly trails away and dissipates. Gravity and inertia cannot do things like that.