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> research suggests it’s not true You misread. Betteridge's law says it can be "no"... I think though his "law" is referring to clickbait that imply a falseho

• pinnochio 8mo ago
  Hm, not much of a law if we boil it down to a tautology.
  • 1718627440 8mo ago
    Every true statement boils down to resolving it to a tautology. In a mathematical proof you resolve definitions until only a tautology is left.
    • pinnochio 8mo ago
      > Every true statement boils down to resolving it to a tautology. Prove it.
• latexr 8mo ago
  > You misread. Betteridge's law says it can be "no"... That doesn’t make sense. Of course Betteridge didn’t mean “it can be answered with “no”, but also “yes””. The point is that you can answer “no” instead of reading the article. Either way, I was responding to ultropolis’ assertion—not Betteridge’s—by citing the studies which already suggest it to be false.