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frazzled

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11. Nice try, but not going to work

Thu May 18, 2017, 12:46 PM

May 2017

It is YOUR duty to prove that these whack-a-doodle posts are correct, with corroborating facts. You can't call on others to disprove what can't be proven.

It is a well-known principle of scientific method that a theory that can't be disproved is no theory at all. The very fact that no respectable, fact-based journalistic outlet has even mentioned any of these stories is not "proof" that they are true. Au contraire.

No high government official is going to leak news to a blogger as opposed to a serious journalist. Until I read something in the Washington Post or New York Times, tweets are unsubstantiated "fake news." These bogus stories are harming, not helping, our cause to get to the bottom of the Trump mess. It's mendacious and dangerous to repeat them here.

Now read this:

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/142650/stop-promoting-liberal-conspiracy-theories-twitter

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I beg of everyone not to report rumors and claims as news. [View all] MineralMan May 2017 OP

Should we check with you first? GliderGuider May 2017 #1

Of course not. If you include links to where you saw something, MineralMan May 2017 #2

Whew. That's good to know. GliderGuider May 2017 #3

No, thanks. MineralMan May 2017 #4

It's not his responsibility to debunk your Gish Gallop Orrex May 2017 #5

Thank you. Truly. MineralMan May 2017 #6

:hi: Orrex May 2017 #7

Of course not. GliderGuider May 2017 #8

Well, you did tell him to debunk all of them, so... Orrex May 2017 #13

Well said. nt cwydro May 2017 #12

Nice try, but not going to work frazzled May 2017 #11

Excellent link. Thanks! MineralMan May 2017 #15

I don't neeed to disprove squat. I just read her. GliderGuider May 2017 #16

I didn't ask you to disprove anything frazzled May 2017 #18

thanks for the laughs, we need them!! we understood exactly what was meant, so I am niyad May 2017 #19

Just check yourself. Iggo May 2017 #9

It would be terrible to see DU taken over by "fake news". kentuck May 2017 #10

Well, people have been posting on DU without links or MineralMan May 2017 #14

I have always thought of GD as "general discussion".. kentuck May 2017 #17

Thank you! snot May 2017 #20