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People always demanding hard proof seem to have an inability to draw conclusions for themselves.

Are there are missing facts and figures? Yes.

Welcome to real life, where you have to make up your mind with what you have available. People have to learn to use and correlate the information they have, historical information, precedent etc, and make up a model for what's going on, instead of demaning some sanctious data to be passed upon them, like a Holy Book.

As Alan Kay said, "a point of view is worth 80 IQ points"

(Not to mention that the "hard facts" they tend to accept (government statements, reports etc) could as well be fabricated, and historically have more often than not been).



> People always demanding hard proof seem to have an inability to draw conclusions for themselves.

I shall notify the scientific journals of this conclusion forthwith.

Next up: "The abstract is just TL;DR culture which is killing literacy. If you want to know what's in a paper, read it."


>I shall notify the scientific journals of this conclusion forthwith.

No, you should just re-read the part that says:

>Welcome to real life, where you have to make up your mind with what you have available. People have to learn to use and correlate the information they have, historical information, precedent etc, and make up a model for what's going on, instead of demanding some sanctious data to be passed upon them, like a Holy Book.

And then you must have to learn to consider the context when replying -- which was not scientific research.

If you expect peer reviewed hard data handed down from the likes of the FBI before you make up your mind, you're obviously not paying attention.


This contributes nothing to the discussion and is jerkish besides.




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