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Just woke up to an Email from PayPal stating that my account was permanently limited, thinking it's a scam I check and lo and behold: I was limited.
But what had I done? Well my only purchases using PayPal were through Itch.io, that's the only thing I use it for.
It seems I was limited for breaking "the policies of our partners" mentioned in the first paragraph of the notice. It's no secret that PayPal are quite close with Mastercard and Visa, who have been pushing hardest for this porn ban (sorry, specifically the NSFW Games sphere).
So this is a PSA: if you're using your PayPal account for anything else, don't use it for Itch.
No scientists are skeptical of all of science, so no. Skepticism is part of the scientific process, but that is totally unrelated to skepticism about the validity of the scientific method of rigorous documentation, observation, and unbiased repeatability by humans that are demonstrably the best and brightest among us. Scientific skepticism is really the plague of ignorant narcissism, the self aggrandizement of crackpots, and the populist fools that follow them.
What you are describing is something I would label "skepticism of science", rather than "scientific skepticism".
So out of curiosity, I did a bit of digging. As andioop mentioned, the term "scientific skepticism" has been used to denote a scientifically minded skepticism for a long time. For example, the Wikipedia article on Scientific Skepticism dates back to 2004 and uses this meaning. Similarly the well known skeptic (pro-science/anti-pseudoscience) wiki, RationalWiki, has linked the scientific method and "scientific skepticism" as far back as 2011, and currently straight up equates skepticism with scientific skepticism. You can also find famous skeptics like Michael Shermer using the term back in the early 2000s, in his case in his 'The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience', published in 2002. It was also used in papers such as this sociology paper by Owen-Smith, 2001. This is the meaning of the term that I am familiar with.
However, since about 2020, there has been more of the term "scientific skepticism" as a parallel to "climate skepticism" and "vaccine skepticism". For example, this paper by Ponce de Leon et al is just one of many I could find via a quick Google Scholar search. This, I take it, is how you use the term.
Personally, I'm probably just gonna keep using "scientific skepticism" to mean "scientifically minded skepticism", but will keep in mind that it can also mean "skepticism of science"
Oh, it's this ‘let's call absolutely different things or even polar opposites the same name’ trope again, I hate it. Thanks for digging it up and informing us