The Question of Trust

Skepticism gets a bad rap.

Skepticism is defined by Wikipedia as "a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma." In other words, it's about questioning things that have no evidence or may seem outdated. Maybe there's a reason things are that way, maybe there is evidence you aren't aware of, but it's worth asking questions lest we stay stuck in doing the same ineffective thing over and over.

The problems with skepticism come in when people start asking questions "for the sake of it." This is where we start to come up against the "conspiracy theorists" and people who move goalposts, never satisfied by any amount of evidence and refusing overwhelming, solid evidence.

So where's the line? At what point is it safe to trust the evidence - or even lack thereof - and at what point are we being paranoid?