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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:33 PM Original message |
Poll question: To explain events and evaluate conspiracy theories, do you include applying Occam's Razor? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. When it comes to conspiracy theories, the opposite of Occam's Razor should be applied. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Okay, but were you my sole no-vote thus far? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I've been paid by Monsanto to be ironic. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. I don't believe that Monsanto would pay you to be ironic |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. LOL |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. Occam's razor best explains natural phenomena/causation, but it can't capture political machinations |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. It's not about which is true, it's about what you are willing to believe is true |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:53 PM Response to Reply #4 |
32. No. The truth is the truth, independent of what I am "willing to believe." |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 05:37 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Believability is irrelevant in true or false, but not irrelevant when one is not 100% sure of truth |
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ngant17 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. excellent point about Occam's razor |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I might not rule out a theory, but I'm not willing to believe it until there is evidence |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. The Madoff scheme was astoundingly simple - that's why it worked. |
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ngant17 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. simple perhaps, but quite effective for a time |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 07:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
38. I disagree; let me cite an example |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. Is there a name for the principle |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Golden rule |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:48 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. No, b/c that's waaayy too obvious re most crimes of america's corp/state nexus - can't have that! |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:48 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. is that how you operate? |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. Money and power are common motives of dishonest behavior, do you not agree? |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Motive is not enough if I have another explanation with evidence |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Yes. |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. I dunno, but excluding sex makes it severely deficient. nt |
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gravity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:08 PM Response to Reply #5 |
24. US flag makers were responsible for engineering 9/11 |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
9. Of course not |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. Since Reagan/Bush, every admin has advanced the police state infrastructure |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
15. Paranoia sometimes endows others with superhuman abilities |
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GreenMetalFlake (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Yes! Hidden in plain sight |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
20. The concern I had about a small minority in this community now seems to be broadly held |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
23. I prefer Sherlock's Razor: |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:37 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. I actually rather liked Douglas Adams' take on that |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
28. Is what I've said SOOOO outlandish to warrant so many unrecommends? |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
29. Let's not forget to apply "Hanlon's Razor" |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
30. What if Occam's Razor |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 05:32 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. there wasn't empirical evidence of WMD in Iraq |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
31. Kind of |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
33. No...I write software for a living...it's never the fewest assumptions !!! |
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guardian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
35. Does an electric razor count? n/t |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-02-10 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
37. I was just glad when he got the granite pizza. n/t |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-03-10 05:17 AM Response to Original message |
39. Conspiracy theories typically require some major--and not very plausible--assumptions |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-03-10 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
40. Yes, except for the conspiracy theories I believe in. |
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