Re:I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking
by puffoflogic on Sunday March 06, 2022 @03:40PM
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> as we haven't come up with a complete model that explains everything we can observe yet.
That objection is utter nonsense and an affront to reasonable discussion. Empiricism hasn't come up with a Grand Unified Theory of Everything yet either, so rationality's failure to do so doesn't constitute evidence either way regarding their relative value.
Re:I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking
by titzer on Monday March 07, 2022 @01:21PM
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> utter nonsense
Let's please not turn the anger dial all the way up on every discussion. I would have been happy to continue discussing this in a dispassionate way, but I won't now.
That objection is utter nonsense and an affront to reasonable discussion. Empiricism hasn't come up with a Grand Unified Theory of Everything yet either, so rationality's failure to do so doesn't constitute evidence either way regarding their relative value.