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Yeah, it doesn't work like that. If you claim someone is lying the onus is on you to prove it, we don't ask people to prove a negative.
by calcifer 6y ago
Yeah, it doesn't work like that. If you claim someone is lying the onus is on you to prove it, we don't ask people to prove a negative.
- spiderfarmer 6y agoYeah, I'm not sure it should work like that anymore. Trump lied in almost every publicly uttered sentence. Why is the onus still on the media to disprove him? At some point you should not automatically trust an institution like the presidency anymore. Back to the original question. NGO's repeatedly say a single kg of meat costs 50.000 liters of water. That number in itself is not undisputed. If they don't specify which meat and which country they're referring to, they're lying. Or misrepresenting facts at the least. If they use this argument in a region that has no shortage water, they're abusing this fact to support a narrative. Etcetera.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoI'm not claiming anyone's lying. Just that they probably are. If I showed you a study on the supposedly benign health effects of tobacco, except that study was funded by Philip Morris, would you trust it until proven wrong? Would you argue "how is their obvious agenda a bad thing?"