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I don’t think HN is as aware that Reason is basically a joke of a publication that’s so consistently and provably wrong you’d think that was their goal (and, in fact, in a way it is) the way some online spaces are. It’s not a source familiar to this crowd.


That’s a textbook ad homenim attack. Do you have an issue with the article specifically? The methodology?


It’s basic media literacy. Even if Sean Hannity says the sky’s blue, I’m not gonna cite him.

Again: HN’s not very familiar with this source, as other crowds would be.


Sure it's an ad homenim fallacy, but it the real world, sometimes you have to make judgement calls on them to just keep moving on.

You can't spend all your days proving Batboy doesn't exist just because Weekly World News published a new article about how he was spotted




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