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Is “cui bono” at odds with a disinterested analysis of the evidence?

• meowface 7y ago
  Not at all, but for situations like these, it seems like a very high percentage of the time, it stops at "cui bono" and skips the analysis part.
  • mindslight 7y ago
    Actually, stopping at "cui bono" would be a great thing. The common pathology is that people start with the legitimate idea of who has benefited, get hung up on unsupported specifics, and end up creating straw men that then get used to discourage talking about the obvious incentives.
    • meowface 7y ago
      No, the common pathology is that they stop at cui bono and come to conclusions about facts based only on incentives instead of empirical data and evidence.