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Labeling something as 'conspiracy ranting' is convenient low-brow tactic to dismiss a supported point of view without consideration. This is also a pattern on H
by mgamache 4y ago
Labeling something as 'conspiracy ranting' is convenient low-brow tactic to dismiss a supported point of view without consideration. This is also a pattern on HN.
- mikeyouse 4y agoAh yes, 'supported points of view' like half the comments in this thread talking about lab employees selling infected animals in the market? Or how we're "pretending" that Covid is a leading cause of death during a pandemic? Or how somehow Pfizer is implicated in the origin of Covid?
- mgamache 4y agoAnother lazy rhetorical tactic, Association Fallacy. Not everyone is making all those claims, in fact I only made one: The lab leak is still a better explanation for the origin of COVID. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
- ModernMech 4y agoThere’s a story on the front page currently about a lazy rhetorical tactic, wherein one calls out fallacies as if they were spells. You might find that interesting.
- anigbrowl 4y agoWhat has been asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence.