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Originally Posted by A.DIM
Nothing.
But in the past I've been accused of "data mining" or "cherry picking" or "appealing to authority" when providing links that support my ideas.
Links and cites have done nothing to quell the "skepticism" I've encountered here when discussing the topic.
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Well,
A.Dim, when I read something you link to after reading your comments or conclusions about it, I often wonder if I'm actually reading the same article. If the article says "It is possible that . . .," "it is speculated that . . ." and so forth, those qualifiers rarely seem to make it to your comments. If the article contains counterpoints to your preferred position, those also tend to be absent. Very often, the qualifications of the article's writer are very much in doubt, or the writer argues for things that are very much in the realm of pseudoscience.
This tends to foster a certain amout of skepticism.