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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" If you make a claim that's wildly diverging from established consensus, yes, you're required to bring ove
by groby_b 6y ago
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
If you make a claim that's wildly diverging from established consensus, yes, you're required to bring overwhelming evidence. Because the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of the claim being wrong.
There's no point in relitigating everything from first principles unless you can make it extremely clear it's worth the effort.
- akimball 6y agoI would go a step further: The odds of any claim being wrong are overwhelming, regardless of whether it is endorsed by the consensus or not, whether it is ordinary or extraordinary. Brains are not truth-making machines. Anyhow, I'm not sure what is extraordinary about biowarfare labs making biowarfare agents. It's actually quite ordinary.