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gwern comments on Personal Evidence - Superstitions as Rational Beliefs - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 22 March 2013 11:05:49PM 4 points [-]

I would rather believe that two Yankee professors would lie than believe that stones fall from heaven..

"A stone cannot fall from the sky - there ARE no stones in the sky." -- Lavoisier (quote found at the link above)

When you hear something really weird from a number of independent sources, what can you conclude?

Comment author: gwern 23 March 2013 02:35:44AM 4 points [-]

So two professors make a tiger? Let us keep in mind that in the annals of Charles Fort, I have little doubt that we could find things we currently believe false with as much testimony.

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