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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
But couldn't that be because some do it as a cry for help?
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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
If the US executed 30 Chinese spies, you're saying China would voluntarily suppress that information and allow the world to believe the US didn't do anything improper?
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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
I take it you don't think this sort of stuff actually happens anymore, despite the fact that the headline itself mentions 30+ agents being killed? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_imprisoned_spies https:&#
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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
The difference is that the US either leverages foreign spies (e.g. trade for its own captured spies) or, like captured sources, they go to prison for breaking espionage laws or treason. They don't execute these people like some other c
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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
They looked at 70,000 expectant swedish mothers who got the flu vaccine and couldn't find a relationship with incidence of autism. Would you ask us to be skeptical over the results of that study because all of these women's bodies
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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
Isn't that exactly the question that informal logical fallacies seek to address? I don't think you can just throw away the word "logic" like that. We try to make arguments using deduction and inference, so there is a log
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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
> For example, using "appeal to authority", it is logically true that just because a group of Fields Medalists think your proof is wrong, does not necessarily mean that your proof is wrong. But in practice, there is a very high
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by bitshiftfaced 6y ago
I don't doubt that this is an actual thing. It also sounds like a thought-terminating cliche, useful when the accused won't let you off the hook for saying something wrong, but it is too painful to admit it.