Strangers in a Strange World …what propositions that you take seriously might actually have the same epistemological character as Icke’s notion that the world is secretly run by shape-shifting twelve foot long extraterrestrial lizards? None? I doubt it. We human beings are actually riddled with superstitions, biases, unexamined prejudices, and flights of fancy. It’s just that we are rarely aware of how absurd they would look if subjected to rigorous, rational scrutiny.