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Re:The “Giving free cash to the poor will make them lazy” th... by CiPHPerCoder on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:54AM (#17506874)
> I wouldn't call it a myth, I'd call it a theory with inadequate evidence to support or refute it.

I would call any theory that lacks adequate evidence to support it a myth.

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Re:The “Giving free cash to the poor will make them lazy” th... by babypistol on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:02AM (#17506941)
Calling it a myth implies that there is adequate evidence to refute it.

By your reasoning we could also be talking about the Giving-Free-Cash-To-The-Poor-Will-Make-Them-Productive myth.

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Re:The “Giving free cash to the poor will make them lazy” th... by nradov on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:59AM (#17506907)
That's called a hypothesis.
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Re:The “Giving free cash to the poor will make them lazy” th... by throwaway2048 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @09:56AM (#17506890)
More like any theory without evidence that persistently gets presented as fact.
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Re:The “Giving free cash to the poor will make them lazy” th... by tomp on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:04AM (#17506956)
So dark energy is just a myth?
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