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Re:Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtua... by chrisweekly on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:34AM (#25559056)
Your "... unfalsifiable classification" question is a fair one, but your final paragraph conflates "opinions" with parent's "commitment" -- a false equivalence that amounts to a strawman argument.

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My own take is that it's less about a period of time [during which loosely-held opinions ostensibly ossify into the kind of commitment that interferes with honest pursuit of truth] and more about mindset, ego and circumstance. Which latter variables are difficult if not impossible to ascertain or verify. Which is why peer-reviewed science -- in removing as much subjectivity as humanly possible -- is our best and only plausible path to truly objective knowledge. (Which in turn is not the only kind of knowledge worth having or sharing! Far from it! But I digress.)

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Re:Chemicals called PFAS and PFOS are in the blood of virtua... by _cs2017_ on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:45AM (#25559526)
Hmm, perhaps the main explanatory factor for ossified opinions is not the passage of time, but individual personality / circsumstances. If so, it is fortunate: once you discover an unbiased person, you can put greater weight on their opinion for a bit longer.
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