There a huge difference between: Don't hold the belief "psychics exist" and holding the belief "psychics don't exist".
Back to your shotgun example. Say someone called the ambulance:
"Hey here is someone who got shut in the head with a shotgun but still lives, you should come fast."
According to your argument the ambulance shouldn't become because the caller is clearly lying and maybe sent the catafalque.
Especially is you come to your conclusion by based on past data where people didn't survive a hit with a shotgun the logical conclusion of your belief could get the ambulance sued because of negligence.
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Well, like I said, he's not a very good speaker! I listened doggedly to the whole hour and a half of the damn thing because you recommended it, and he said specifically that he was a skeptic.
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The first skeptics believed in God and while most skeptics don't today, there no inherent conflict. Everybody has some existential beliefs. The belief in time is a similar unproven belief that a lot of people (even skeptics) hold today.
He is at the border of the Zeitgeist, so it's difficult to understand the ideas.