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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by lugged on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:45PM (#28701960)
Fauci literally lied because he didn't trust the population with the truth. That's moving the goal posts.
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by etchalon on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:05PM (#28702063)
No. That's lying. Moving the goal posts does not require lying, in fact in rarely includes it. It only requires that you change your argument when you're disproved.
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by Jenda_ on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:16PM (#28702123)
The fable "The Dragon In My Garage" by Carl Sagan is a nice demonstration of a similar concept. http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf
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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by etchalon on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:26PM (#28702189)
See also, The Invisible Gardener: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Invisible_Garde...
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