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Re:Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake n... by JumpCrisscross on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:18AM (#21662237)
> What are false things that have strong evidence behind them?

Eh, the history of science is littered with these. From early theories of vision involving beams cast out by our eyes [1] to phlogiston [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

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Re:Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake n... by phs318u on Friday November 29, 2019 @01:22AM (#21662476)
The difference being that science doesn’t consider truth a single absolute but a boundary on the body of knowledge. Old theorems are replaced by “truer” ones.

EDIT: autocorrect

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