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by hnfong 1468 days ago
Is there actual evidence that these "fun stories" did not happen, or are you mistaking lack of evidence with evidence of absence?
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If you want to play in the science sandbox and be taken seriously by the other scientists, you don’t get to ask for “evidence of absence”. We haven't done science that way for four hundred years.

If you have an issue with that, that’s fine, go start your own community of researchers with your own principles and methods. See how much you discover. But you don’t complain about not being taken seriously by the people that think your approach is deeply flawed.