A scientist's skepticism is in inverse proportion to the security of his/her funding.

A scientist who isn't a skeptic is a very poor scientist, indeed.

Given that most scientists today have very little security of funding, what does that say about the quality of a lot of modern scientific investigation?

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not really "afraid" to go through the immigration procedures at American ports of entry. I just find the whole thing obnoxious and bureaucratic and an afront to standards of human decency that are the norm in most other places in the world.

I also end up every time feeling angry that a whole country of people can seemingly be held in such fearful sway by a combination of government propaganda and media manuipulation. Who in their right mind thinks they'll have a happy holiday visiting a country in the grips of an extremely nasty collective psychosis?