has there historically ever been an issue where the side that was more eager to engage in extensive logic chopping debate was also the side that was in the wrong?
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if science advances one funeral at a time, that would point at the time before the funeral being a stalemate, and knowing scientists, probably not for lack of debate
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i'm looking for cases where one side was seeking debate, and one side was avoiding debate, and the latter side turned out to be right
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hm, then any issue where being on the wrong side gets you canceled or gulaged
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if you're free to discuss an issue in public without retribution, either you or the issue don't matter - so any example here is either eventually confounded by politics, or historically irrelevant