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Re:The Phrase "No Evidence" Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Co... by MichaelZuo on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:33AM (#38914464)
Courts would consider it to be 'evidence' if 'Crazy Carl' was saying it on the witness stand, just very low quality and unpersuasive 'evidence'.
Re:The Phrase "No Evidence" Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Co... by alexvoda on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:42AM (#38914585)
Maybe we should not be mixing the meaning of "evidence" in a scientific context with the meaning in a legal context. Clearly science does not care about human laws, verdicts, juries, etc.. Different contexts, different meanings. Just because an unsupported claim can be valid legal evidence does not mean it can be scientific evidence.
Re:The Phrase "No Evidence" Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Co... by MichaelZuo on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:48AM (#38914689)
In the scientific context it would still be considered 'evidence' of some kind because there is indeed a very very very small chance an alien in fact, in ground truth, stole the prized turnip for whatever reasons.
Re:The Phrase "No Evidence" Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Co... by pixl97 on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:44PM (#38916237)
Or, in cases where corroborating evidence does not exist, one should believe the high frequence event causation rather than the low one first.
Re:The Phrase "No Evidence" Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Co... by MichaelZuo on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:28AM (#38927996)
Sure, but it's still evidence to some degree.
Re:The Phrase "No Evidence" Is a Red Flag for Bad Science Co... by taeric on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:37AM (#38914522)
Fair, I should have said "physical evidence" there for the missing items. My point was more that there is a difference, even if you can lump them in a very broad category term.