Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues

Re:Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues by gpm on Sunday December 12, 2021 @09:49AM (#29530051)

The onus is on the people making claims in general. In this case someone (the journalist?) made a claim that "spartans didn't kill `weak' babies", so the onus is on them.

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Re:Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues by arkades on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:59AM (#29531216)

No, if the evidence for the area points to X, the folks claiming a deviation from the general evidenced trend need to provide evidence for that.

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Re:Ancient Spartans didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues by pyuser583 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @01:05PM (#29531908)

This paper isn’t making an argument. It’s summarizing specialized research.

A specialist in the area could just say “appeal to authority” and they’d be right. The actual peer reviewed articles and books would require evidence.

But those articles and books wouldn’t be accessible to the average reader.

So the journalist is summarizing those arguments, but in the process reducing them to an appeal to authority - which is completely fine.

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