Oh No Mr. Bill

If you're not one for moody confrontation, there's always the passive aggressive approach to life in which those least susceptible to satire will not grasp the illusion of your seemingly impervious reactions. It's true they'll mistake your dissembling indifference for legitimate neutrality, but then those aren't the people you really want to be engaging regardless. So take some tips from the wallflower lifestyle and:

-Play diffident; Public displays of humility put you beyond the invasive scrutiny of higher-ups and lower people's expectations from you, thus allowing you to generally exceed set standards. 

-Small talk is overrated and easiest to avoid given a feckless approach to lower the garrulous offender's ramblings as they then regard you as being an insufficient participant in their maundering. 

-As someone who values the entire basis of skepticism, you want people to arrive at their own conclusions and so in order to refrain from any possible influential remarks prevaricate answers provide your audience with no substantial sense of an inherently correct answer and so forces them to evaluate the issue through true analytical processes. 

  - Another important piece of wisdom is to be realistic in life; even to be to some degree pessimistic. If you never get your hopes up they can never be brought down; so realize there is no solution to all of your problems, no magical answer that appeases every party involved in a dispute. But even if there's no panacea to life's troubles, not allowing your hopes to reach ineffable heights of optimism makes pleasant surprises, even in paucity, something to be celebrated, regardless of their scarcity. 

 -You have a right to your opinions and perceptions of the world, whether people view you as a dilettante or not, just because you exercised certain notions regarding fields of work you may not possess a doctorate in. No one is as omniscient as they'd elect to believe anyway, so you have just as much a right to impugn the dinosaur enterprise as anyone; last time you checked those "prehistoric" bones were far too irascible to have endured what the cupidity of dinosaur industry tries to sell you for a much higher price than that of a t-shirt. So question everything. Be observant and don't accept anything less than cogent evidence in your acquiescence. 

-Technology is the degradation of academia. It pulls from traditional education and hands-on learning in its baleful predation on the callow minds of easily distracted teenagers. Its presence invective in its prioritizing of fatuous social media and promotion of countless canards that only serve to ruin reputations of unaccountable victims. It is because of Facebook and Twitter that people are quick to trust the apocryphal statements of mindless propaganda ever-present in this new-aged corrosion of face-to-face humane interaction. You can choose your role in this "advancing" society; the Luddite who is someone that firmly perpetuates the ideas listed above and refuses to accept the age of technology in all its unwitting pander which promotes morally unsound abuse of the technologies advantages for inane motives, or the puerile oblivion that chooses to ignore all of the detrimental effects a so-called progressing world faces as it deviates from the natural order of human condition. If anything, you can pose your moral objection to technology's poisonous trend and keep your flip phone only on hand for absolute emergencies. 

When it comes down to the wallflower approach, you find it fits best to those gauche individuals whose coping mechanism for crying girls is a ghetto Nemo sticker.