Eugine_Nier comments on Evolution, Sex, and Gender, Not to Mention Research - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 January 2013 12:46:01AM 2 points [-]

The people I have in mind say something along the lines of "But the newspaper reports are the only information we have, therefore we have no choice but to believe them".

Comment author: [deleted] 17 January 2013 07:55:36PM 1 point [-]

Mmm, yeah, but even when word-of-mouth is the only information we have, we “have no choice but to believe them” in that sense (assuming they mean something sensible by that phrase in that context).