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Morning thought: "The Science Is Settled" is a tell.
If it was actually settled then there wouldn't be anyone arguing about it, and nobody would have a reason to assert that its settled.
Nobody says "the science is settled" about the speed of light, or the number of electrons in an oxygen molecule. Nobody even says round earth is "settled", because while flat earthers do exist, they are a meme.
If you know nothing about a topic, except you hear one thing:
Dr. Dingblatt saying: "The science is settled, X is Y", you now know:
1. The science is probably not settled
2. Dr. Dingblatt is probably a liar, or a fool repeating lies
3. As a likely fraud, Dr. Dingblatt's papers have a higher than average chance of being fraudulent
4. Therefore: X is more likely NOT to be Y than it was when you knew nothing.
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Attempts at censorship are also a tell: Those who are sure of the correctness of their position will prefer to argue it in the open - because they enjoy repeating the logic which has convinced them of their position.
Those who believe they are lying want the argument to go away because it is cognitive dissonance for them to engage in an argument which they know they are losing. Their useful idiots mindlessly repeat their patterns: monkey-see-monkey-do.
If you know nothing about a topic of debate except that one side is interested in open argumentation and the other is interested in censorship, you know that the side interested in argumentation has a better chance of being right.
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The facts are with those who learned to read, not with those who write.
When you come across missing facts the result is comparatively the same as when you come across a faulty reasoning. For that to happen tough you must be at least familiar with the context.
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