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> Suggesting water was never drank. Sounds like a straw man, or at least a weak man [1], debunked, and then the debunking is falsely applied to the whole categ

• kodt 1y ago
  Perhaps, but you often see the myth written as a quick sentence or two before some beer related article. Academics may not be writing that, but lazy writers will repeat it often.
• legitster 1y ago
  Also known as the "no true Scotsman" fallacy.