“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof” As an aside, this isn’t true. There are many things right in front of us that we dismiss routinely, and “eve

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof” As an aside, this isn’t true. There are many things right in front of us that we dismiss routinely, and “everyone knows” these things are extraordinary/insane/wrong and so on. Usually, if you spend the time to learn about such things you can discover that they’re very normal and provable, you just have to go against the crowd. That’s different from needing extraordinary evidence. Primarily this seems to be due to disinformation efforts and plain old human biases.