Phrased in a different way: if you see something that looks like a spring unicorn in the desert, then that might not mean that you will be able to drink from pet it, but you can be certain that, in that moment, you are seeing something that looks like a spring unicorn in the desert.

I know you think I am trying to be clever, but I don’t need to be clever to see through such simple nonsense which you are unwilling to defend.

You can answer the question or you can stop wasting my time. Tanks. :)

Do Unicorns exist?

Answer the question.

How can Science be proven wrong and still work? That is not at all how Science works.

Off the top of my head string theory is a good example of numerous competing hypothesis that seem plausible given the data.

why do we have so many terms?

The reason I see behind this is hyper individualism. Every one needs to feel special and unique in a group supposed to act in solidarity. I disagree with the amount of terms, especially the slur included, because the community can be summed up with H (homosexual) and B (Bisexual). Everything else has created more infighting within the wider community, and made it feel like a dumping ground for anyone who isn’t “cishet” for the sake of inclusion.

Is using a label not somewhat alienating?

I find this to be true, mainly when your label prevents you from interacting with people of the “wrong” label. Which isn’t exclusive to the Gay community, and found anywhere people group up.

Why do pronouns have to depend on gender?

The entire purpose of pronouns is to avoid the repetition of a name.

“Sally said that Sally wanted to go to Sally’s house to get Sally’s medicine.”

“Sally said that she wanted to go to her house to get her medicine.”

They are dependent on the sex of the subject historically, leading to why they now depend on “gender” in language as we have been moving further from a binary understanding of sex.

Should this not just be something personal?

I think it is something that should be personal. No one needs to know the specifics of my sexual attractions excluding those I wish to be sexual with.

If a person tells me their gender, how should I react/respond to it?

I would say simply thank them for being open with you and do your best to use them. If all else fails people have a name and you can default to that to avoid misgendering someone and hurting them.

why do some groups use different acronyms?

Because there has never been a time where the “Gay community” was a unified community, and different groups with different acronyms tend to heavily disagree on what should be added or omitted. It goes back to the first point of why their are so many labels: Everyone wants to feel like an individual even in cases where they are a part of a group.

What happens when “science” backs up two opposing ideas with sufficient evidence and logic to make either seem plausible?

If you see a mirage of a spring in the desert can you quench your thirst?

Tell you what, you define right and left, I will define the center of it if that will help you wrap your brain around it. Otherwise I have no idea what it is you are trying to accomplish other than starting a zero sum fight so unless you get it together I’m out.

I think you need to work on your argument.

I have not once argued anything in any direction. I asked you to point me in the direction of what I couldn’t find, because what I could find contradicts you.

If you don’t want to support your claim jog on and try to start a fight with someone else.

The plural of anecdote is not data. From what I found the ratings on other sites were citing the same things, which is why I asked if you had something substantial considering your point of view.

Stop being such a combative child if you want to communicate with others. I was asking you for information I couldn’t find, not arguing with you. Take a breathe outside bud.

consider my flat-earthers example: the trustworthiness of the source(s) is at least as important. If I told you my pseudo is ‘Libb’ you can bet that it is indeed so, even if that just me saying it. And that would remain true if, out of nowhere, 100s of people started telling you my pseudo was in reality ‘Mickey’ or ‘Gertrude’. I would still be Libb. Conclusion? All by myself, against that hypotheticla large crowd, I’m still a more reliable source of info concerning my identity.

The trustworthiness is absolutely important, and just as important to me, as quantity. The point I was making is it seems that a lot of people in the thread have been underrating the importance of quantity and over rating the importance of source quality. Even the most reputable sources can be wrong, especially in frontier sciences, which leads to a lot of retractions and rewrites.

Using your example, you could be lying.

No, and I’m almost wishing to see it. Almost.

It isn’t worth hunting down, but worth a watch if you stumble across it. haha

I must admit the rise of flat earth theory came as a shock to me. I always have had a sweet spot for absurd theories but I could not imagine people taking those seriously. But maybe that’s just me being manipulated/lobotomized by the government? As a matter of fact, I’m also a pro-vax and that may explain a lot :p

It came as a shock to me as well. I enjoy reading about the absurd ideas people have in their heads, and I get why people believe in them. It makes sense to them, and they rely on nothing but personal observation and limited knowledge to form beliefs. They were failed as children in my opinion.

I too got my microchips and am possibly being manipulated by the government. Which one? Who knows. Monies on the US. lol

A better example of what I mean by unconsciousness is general anesthesia. That doesn’t feel like anything. One moment you’re lying in the operating room counting backwards, and the next you’re in the recovery room. There’s no sense of time passing, no dreams, nothing in between - it’s just a gap.

I am not disagreeing. I am providing you something that demonstrates the premise you built your idea on is false.

Do you have examples of other bias/fact check sources that contradict the score from MBFS?

Some studies on dreams under anesthesia.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4970206/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5668036/

It is itself extremely biased, you believed an authority that isn’t neutral.

Their problem is that any news agency in the middle east is automatically “untrustworthy” with quotes like “they haven’t been found to report false stories, but we still give them an untrustworthy rating”.

I already gave you the examples, I said that they unfairly represent middle eastern news as untrustworthy. Or are you here to nitpick and “um ackthcshually”?

You have provided 0 examples of a middle eastern news source that is unfairly ranked.

Are you going to keep being combative and waste both of our time refusing to answer a simple good faith question?

One quality study is enough to convince you of something, even if it has never been reproduced or reviewed?

Do you have examples of reputable sources from the middle east that have an unfair rating?

I keep hearing “it isn’t the quantity…” and I do not understand why it isn’t seen as just as important as trustworthiness of source because even the best source needs a high amount of data to back up a claim.

On the topic of flat earthers, did you ever see the video of the guy who tried to demonstrate the earth was flat and proved it was round? The look on his face was priceless. haha