A Rant About Claims and Proof

I’ve been following a conversation in a forum where someone is talking about how he essentially disbelieves someone’s claim to be psychic (this is a forum where discussions of this sort arise regularly; it’s not a skeptics forum, but very mixed). His argument goes like this: Q says she’s a … Continue reading

 
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I’m no fan of the (very conservative) Liberal Party, but I have to agree with them on this point: Labor, they claimed, had comprehensively failed to deliver on cybersafety policies for children – and this failure was directly linked to Labor’s inability to let go of its obsession with its … Continue reading