Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of M...
by dctoedt on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:55PM
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> If you assert that a cluster of distinctive cancers is caused by the local chemical plant, pointing out that similar cancer clusters are cropping up other places nowhere near a chemical plant is an evidence-based rebuttal to your theory.
That's a sweeping generalization; it's not a rebuttal if the cancers in question have multiple causative factors — as you seem implicitly to acknowledge in your very-next paragraph about "entirely-different reasons" ....
> “Historians” are, as a general matter, terrible at describing why things happen. They’re not data analyzers, they’re story tellers.
Really? "I usually don't agree with historians' explanation of why things happen" is not an acceptable definition of "terrible."
(Oh, and as I'm sure you know professionally: Story-telling is often the best way to communicate a message.)
That's a sweeping generalization; it's not a rebuttal if the cancers in question have multiple causative factors — as you seem implicitly to acknowledge in your very-next paragraph about "entirely-different reasons" ....
> “Historians” are, as a general matter, terrible at describing why things happen. They’re not data analyzers, they’re story tellers.
Really? "I usually don't agree with historians' explanation of why things happen" is not an acceptable definition of "terrible."
(Oh, and as I'm sure you know professionally: Story-telling is often the best way to communicate a message.)