DanArmak comments on You Be the Jury: Survey on a Current Event - Less Wrong
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Most real-life issues admit of more than two answers. It's just the political and media approach to paint things as black and white.
In other words: reversed falsehood is not truth. You can't get at the truth by taking the opposite position from Ann Coulter. Because the vast majority of statements don't have a single opposite position.
So while you can judge her always wrong, it will only help you to be right by dismissing her opinions, not by suggesting the right ones.
Of course. It's an exceedingly limited heuristic and valuable only in rare circumstances.