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We 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 repea
by russdill 3y ago
We 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...