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The point is that you should argue against the best theory advanced by the strongest proponent of the poorly-hidden alien crowd. How you argue against that poin
by roc 17y ago
The point is that you should argue against the best theory advanced by the strongest proponent of the poorly-hidden alien crowd. How you argue against that point doesn't really matter, so long as you're being intellectually honest. (no ad hominem, straw men, etc)
What the article is arguing against, is the method of dismissing the poorly-hidden alien theory, because some crackpot who advances it believes that aliens live in his bathroom drain.
One cannot simply inspect this one drain, find no evidence of extraterrestrial life and then dismiss the entire poorly-hidden alien theory.
- amalcon 17y agoMy point is that you don't necessarily need to argue against a particular theory at all. The entire rest of the post is pretty good; it's just that one particular part can be misleading if taken in isolation.