Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by colordrops on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:12AM
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I was responding to you, not the OP. Most statements on HN are not immediately backed by sources, as this is not a scientific forum. But if you are just gonna tell someone they are full of shit, you should have some solid data behind it rather than a questionable clickbait rag that may or may not be cherry picking and massaging its own sources.
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Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by heimdall on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:34AM
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” - Hitchens's razor.
The burden of proof is always on the person making an assertion or proposition. When they do not provide proof of their claim, and another person calls it "full of shit", it is not valid to shift the burden of proof onto them to disprove the original claim.
And there's a great reason for this - the bullshit asymmetry principle: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.