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While I understand you’re trying to add some color to the claims so as to inform us to take them with a grain of salt, you’re also committing a logical fallacy
by dcow 3y ago
While I understand you’re trying to add some color to the claims so as to inform us to take them with a grain of salt, you’re also committing a logical fallacy.
So what if the devil himself made the claim? Unless it’s verifiably absurd, you have to respond to the substance. It seems from reading other threads that it’s not an absurd claim, so it would be helpful if you brought some substance of your own to the discussion. Otherwise we risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- mcguire 3y agoIf 10 out of 10 claims a person makes are verifiably absurd, is that not empirical evidence of something? See Derick Lowe's response to this claim.
- russdill 3y agoWe all have a limited number of heartbeats in our lives. There are far more claims made than we have time to individually assess ourselves. Someone making repeated false claims is a good metric to use when deciding whether analysis of certain claims are worth our time to evaluate.
- thwarted 3y agoExactly. People and society having to deal with certain individuals "making repeated false claims" has resulted in this having a name: "bad reputation".
- dcow 3y agoMy point is not that reputation is a useless metric. It is that it’s only part of the equation and in this case probably misleading.
- lend000 3y agoThe difference is that this guy has a history of unpalatable opinions, not refutable claims. For someone who makes consistent, provable errors, I completely agree not to waste the effort. But I don't agree in the first case, especially because this is a more or less a provable article, not an opinion piece.
- mcguire 3y agoOut of curiosity, are the Protocols of the Elders of Zion an "unpalatable opinion" or a "refutable claim"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of... https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2020/september/whitfield-conversation.html https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2020/september/whitfield-conver...