RE: Congratulations...if true!
There, you said the right phrase “if true”. The problem with Maduro is he has lied so many times, that it becomes difficult to believe anything he says.
Who outside Venezuela is going to prove the science?
Science is skepticism - a reported result must be repeated by people beside the author to be believed.Skepticism is conservative.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. — Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)Altho it’s easy to consider cynicism to be “extreme skepticism,” that is not a useful formulation because skepticism is uncertainty. Cynicism, OTOH, is (negative) certainty, and thus in a very real sense the two are opposites.