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by IAmBroom 274 days ago
> Right now there is a deliberate veil of secrecy and serious mysteries that aren't denied by anybody serious. They definitively exist.

OK, I get that you're a cryptozoology/"aliens walk among us!" kinda person, but...

A lack of evidence against a theory is never evidence for the theory. It's very hard to prove a negative.
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catigula 274 days ago
Curious that you immediately descend into partisan thought short-circuiting and now that that didn't work, you come up with a new angle.
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crackrook 274 days ago
The person you're replying to wasn't the one who invoked what you call "partisan thought short circuiting," (which, I have to say, reads a lot like parody). It was me. Occam's razor is not at all about "what I prefer" and is entirely about preferring theories with evidence over those that are lacking (instead of inventing new theories to explain away the lack of evidence).
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crackrook 274 days ago
Sorry, dumb thing to write. That's not at all Occam's razor is and I clearly need to get educated.
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