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Re:Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th by xattt on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:42PM (#33726467)
To add to this, the grandparent post wants to hear the critiques about the content rather than the messenger.

I think about the story of he discovery of H. pylori as contributing to peptic ulcer disease. The theory was widely rejected but ultimately proven. The mitigating factor in accepting the theory was that the researcher did not have a reputation of peddling quack theories.

Past behaviour predicts future behaviour.

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Re:Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th by meheleventyone on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:02AM (#33728838)
The mitigating factor was surely the extremely detailed evidence provided which is what is always lacking in conspiracy theories. The latter hide in the gaps in evidence and insinuation. The Hancock ‘documentary’ is basically an Atlantian of the gaps.
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