(If you're a fan of logical fallacies, this is usually called "moving the goalposts" because the person making the argument has arbitrarily changed what they'll accept as evidence to fit their own preconceived beliefs)
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Could you understand the bit at the end about him accusing Stephan of using circular reasoning? I couldn't quite understand what Gary was saying.
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It sounded like nonsense tbh. I honestly have no idea how he could perceive Stephan's argument as circular, it was a very odd thing to say
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The problem w Taubes et al., antivax, flat earth, climate denial [insert conspiracy here] is they start at the conclusion. If you are already at the end, you ain't travelling anywhere else. They don't understand a hypothesis is not a conclusion & theirs is the alternative hypot
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I had to Google Taubes because I wasn't familiar. Check out the shade from Wikipedia
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@garytaubes could benefit from read of Hill’s Criteria of causality to better understand why many nutrition scientists and nutritional epi folks don’t buy his dismissal of evidence contrary to his opinionsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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With anti vaxxers, anything in support of vaccine safety is discarded as pharma corruption so, yeah, confirmation bias big time.
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