About 13 years ago I had a debate with a friend about some political thing. He repeated something from the media (AM radio) I knew was BS so I told him I’d email him evidence to the contrary, he told me he’d send evidence in support. I sent him a mountain of evidence but never heard from him. The next time we met I brought it up he told me he didn’t have time to read my email, his body language said otherwise. That’s when I realized it was a cult
Something I find funny - uncanny even - is how easily the roles swap. If someone sent you a mountain of ‘evidence’ for a flat earth or magnetising vaccines, and you threw it out saying obviously it’s BS and you can’t be bothered to read it, the internet would agree and laud you for common sense.
But OP-of-the-tweet sends her friend two ‘sources’ and we all agree the friend is an idiot for not believing the ‘facts’.
I suppose what it means is, quantity of evidence isn’t useless, but is only part of the search for knowledge.
About 13 years ago I had a debate with a friend about some political thing. He repeated something from the media (AM radio) I knew was BS so I told him I’d email him evidence to the contrary, he told me he’d send evidence in support. I sent him a mountain of evidence but never heard from him. The next time we met I brought it up he told me he didn’t have time to read my email, his body language said otherwise. That’s when I realized it was a cult
Something I find funny - uncanny even - is how easily the roles swap. If someone sent you a mountain of ‘evidence’ for a flat earth or magnetising vaccines, and you threw it out saying obviously it’s BS and you can’t be bothered to read it, the internet would agree and laud you for common sense.
But OP-of-the-tweet sends her friend two ‘sources’ and we all agree the friend is an idiot for not believing the ‘facts’.
I suppose what it means is, quantity of evidence isn’t useless, but is only part of the search for knowledge.