I guess I tend to think more along the lines of :

PHYSICAL/SCIENTIFIC/COMMON SENSE and WHAT MAN DOESN’T KNOW YET

As opposed to:

MYSTICAL/WEIRD/WACKO and PHYSICAL/SCIENTIFIC.

(Generally speaking that is)

I definitely however, oftentimes, try to put things that are "fringy" into the PHYSICAL/SCIENTIFIC/COMMON SENSE category—can’t help it, that’s how my brain works, but I still can’t dismiss everything that falls in the "mystical" or outside western medicine or outside current scientific understanding.

There is just so much out there– that for me I would have to approach each specific topic individually and know the cutting edge of current research and have first-hand experience with a lot of "fringy" stuff before I would ever take a sweeping blanket worldview on it ALL that is so black and white— between THIS category and everything else automatically goes in THAT category. As I feel this author does, or seems to imply IMO.

I do find fault with the way man goes about some things whether discoveries, claims, miracle cures, research techniques, etc because even though I see a possibility for some things I still TEST everything and one of those tests is PHYSICAL/SCIENTIFIC/COMMON SENSE and I also consider the tendencies of man—greedy, power hungry, notoriety seeking, etc

So if someone makes a "fringy" claim to me I have to weigh the circumstances in order to decide how to handle it. Are they seeking help? an argument? a good debate? information? or just total compliance and reassurance? What is the environment it’s being discussed in? How serious are they? How much do they seem to know about their belief? How much do I know about it?

And then again sometimes I don’t consider the other person at all and just shoot my mouth off and/or insert foot. More often than I'd like too…unfortunately