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If you're that skeptical, shouldn't your first step be looking up more details on how he was verified to be legitimate? Rather than saying in a comment thread t
by ajkjk 10y ago
If you're that skeptical, shouldn't your first step be looking up more details on how he was verified to be legitimate? Rather than saying in a comment thread that there's no way to know?
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoI had a look on wikipedia. There is a section on some "tests" conducted by NASA, but "the intent was to create a three-dimensional view of his brain structure and to compare the images to MRI scans done in 1988". That doesn't tell me much about why they thought he had an interesting enough brain to try to image, i.e. why they were convinced he was a savant. Does your comment mean you know why NASA (and others, I guess) thought he was legit?
- ajkjk 10y agoNo, I just wonder why you came in here doubting it. It's so unlikely that nobody ever thought to check. It's not impossible, but it's certainly unlikely.
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y agoWhat do you mean "why I came in here"? I post here very frequently.
- ajkjk 10y agoBroken_Hippo is correct. "why I came in here" means "you seem to have come in here wanting to doubt it, even though there's very little reason to do so." It seems very disingenuous.
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoto YeGoblynQueenne: What do you mean "why I came in here"? I post here very frequently. Likely mid-western colliquial (I'm from Indiana). It means that you originally posted with the sole thought of doubting it. It has no bearing on how often you are there. For example, a regular at a bar might get told one day, "You came in here looking for a fight!" - it speaks of intentions, not frequency.