A bleever is, just like it sounds, a human shaped manifestation of a vocalization of an ungulate, who naively bleeves and succumbs to those who domesticate it for fur, milk or meat. A believer has faith in his educated guesses or even trusts his homeopath because the guy studied proper medicine, while bleever says Bigfoot exists because somebody said so, and somebody wouldn't be lying.
A skeptard is, just like it sounds, a primitive pattern of mind-like properties that overwhelming parasitic fear develops by means of Peckhamian mimicry to replace the true intellectual functions without the host (normally a person, sometimes less than that) even noticing. When presented with the evidence, a skeptic is eager to examine it with utmost scrutiny, while skeptard plays dead during the encounter, claiming later that nothing happened.
When the two meet, such a love intrigue it is.
Being either believer or a skeptic has nothing to do with knowledge of scientific methodology. Believer is oriented towards the unknown. Skeptic trusts in the explanatory power of the known. Believers expand the knowledge. Skeptics make sure it’s knowledge.
A believer is often highly skeptical of the mainstream academia, which makes them skeptics, sometimes even “skeptards” when it comes to already established knowledge.
A skeptic is only skeptical of claims that are already highly speculative. In a way, that makes them usurpers of the term “skepticism”, because they exercise no skepticism on the established knowledge. In addition, they regularly dismiss the evidence presented by believers for reasons that, if equally applied to some of the “known facts”, would crash them. On those grounds, skeptics can sometimes be rightfully called “bleevers in the mainstream academia”.
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