Come on, dude. Quit being so needlessly confrontational. My only point was "baseless" was too strong a word, because of all the unknowns. The allegation is al

Come on, dude. Quit being so needlessly confrontational. My only point was "baseless" was too strong a word, because of all the unknowns. The allegation is almost certainly untrue or distorted, but "baseless" is certainly-level 10/10, and the unknowns just don't let you reasonably get to that level (only, say, to level 9/10). Baseless is for nonsense that couldn't possible even tough the ground, like Q-Anon level garbage (e.g. some dude who never leaves his basement alleging he's discovered that Hillary Clinton drinks children's blood to live forever). > in which case we should hear them out and not use hurtful language like 'baseless'. No. The reporters should have asked the government for a statement and reported the denial, so "a notion the government says is baseless," instead "a baseless notion." Alternatively, they could have exposed their thinking and said "a notion that we know is baseless because we trust the government to never do such a dastardly thing."