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by erodommoc 3383 days ago
This seems to come up over and over again, and it always comes down to what assumptions you start with. If you accept all of the axioms and methods, the proof holds. If you don't, it doesn't. Articles like this one, aimed at an audience that already assumes that its techniques are valid, are never going to convince a non-mathematical audience that doesn't know what the basic assumptions are, because that's not their goal.