Posting prejudice as "fact"

[Muhammed]

Even research that is shown to be "fact" isn't analyzed to see if there are flaws in the study. For the cynical, they think it means no fact is ever true.

If you have access to the methodology, you can analyse it.

Some people can.

 

[Ringel05]

People on here post absolute rubbish as fact when there is nothing factual to back it up.

Why is that allowed ?

If you say, for example :

Unemployment has gone up in the last year.

Then you should be able to back it up with a link to some figures.

Why doesnt the message board insist on this ?

I think it would save a lot of time and possibly raise the standard of debate.

Men from Mars aren't all green or little, some're red.........

 

[Agit8r]

Why doesnt the message board insist on this ?

Some members would not be able to post at all. Especially ones with superhero avatars.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

What I like the most is their ability to take a single example of wickedness and apply it to the morality of several billion people. Thats a special kind of dumb.

 

[Ringel05]

What I like the most is their ability to take a single example of wickedness and apply it to the morality of several billion people. Thats a special kind of dumb.

That's pretty much across the board, such is life.

 

[Si modo]

What I like the most is their ability to take a single example of wickedness and apply it to the morality of several billion people. Thats a special kind of dumb.

Yup.