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Turkish has a different verb tense for something you personally witnessed vs heard second hand or inferred, and I really appreciate that
I'm somehow reminded of Philip Roth which is the example of not trusting to the extreme. Wikipedia's article on The Human Stain said the book was inspired by Anatole Broyard. Roth said that wasn't true, and he contacted Wikipedia to fix it. The editors told him he wasn't a credible source on his own novel and that they needed a published secondary source. So in 2012 he wrote an open letter in The New Yorker setting the record straight, which gave Wikipedia the source it demanded.
I hear that. I've had many discussions where people link their claims and their link does not back them up or outright contradicts them. But they keep on making their claim.
I got sent so many tiktoks or other short form media where someone explains something that they read, and they sound really smart and all. Sometimes i read up the source and what they got out of it was just plain wrong or misinterpreted. Someone once said: smart people aren't on tiktok, truly smart people don't have the time, they write the stuff that people make tiktoks about.
Worse part is when a headline of an article like that is posted on social media and everyone just takes it at face value, especially if they agree with it.
SCIENTIST FOUND EVIDENCE THAT THE MULTIVERSE IS REAL
New experimental observations regarding macroscopic quantum mechanical systems are found to be consistent with the many-worlds interpretation.
Yeah, Many-Worlds is just a bunch of metaphysics tacked on top of quantum mechanics. It doesn't change any of the mathematics at all, so it predicts all the same things normal quantum mechanics predicts. Yet, for some reason, all the time, you see headlines claiming to find "evidence" for Many Worlds, and you click the article, and you find that all they did was just test a prediction of quantum mechanics is correct... which obviously is consistent with Many Worlds because it makes all the same predictions! There is no experiment that can single out Many Worlds from standard quantum mechanics because they don't make different predictions.
Reminds me of every instance of a "Gen Z" is dumb article out there
fake: no source
gay: anon reads
When the word "tantalizing" is used, you know you're in for some absolute hogwash.
What's the alternative? Force journalists to reveal their sources? I'm sure that won't backfire...
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