In particular this rephrasing violates the law of conservation of expected evidence.
Can you elaborate? I don't see this.
David wrote:
bad ideas will tend to have better arguments for them than good ideas,
So would he actually treat hearing a good argument for an idea as evidence against that idea?
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
Of course, for "every Monday", the last one should have been dated July 22-28. *cough*