The focus of the present article is a problem that lies within education in general and within the field of information technology in education in particular. That problem is the current widespread lack of skepticism about popular educational movements and techniques. The lack of skepticism leads professionals to blindly accept the status quo and decline to question widely-held assumptions. Without a widespread attitude of skepticism, popular philosophies, theories, programs and techniques are self-perpetuating and are not subject to validation of any kind. This leads to the popularization of pseudo- scientific ideas, attitudes and practices and the establishment of a body of untested beliefs and techniques that are considered to be exempt from criticism. When the lack of skepticism becomes widespread, progress in any discipline is likely to come to a halt.