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Comment Re:And yet nothing will be done in the long run (Score 1) 259

I like fracking because liberals aren't quite sure what line to tow.

First of all, try and get the freakin' idiom right. It's toe, not tow.

Second, where's the evidence liberals are looking for a line to toe? You made some extraordinary claims that you weren't able to find any citation for:

According to liberals:

Fracking is evil when it's for oil.
Fracking is good when it's for natural gas.

HOLD IT! Now that oil companies are heavily investing in natural gas, the environmental effects due to getting it and processing it must be scrutinized!

Natural gas bad! Better than coal, but bad!

Third, this is how you decide policy? Sounds like typical right-wing mindlessness to me.

Comment Re:absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (Score 1) 223

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Ah, but it is.

Admittedly, I think this proof assumes that the absence of evidence is not due to coverup or just plain laziness -- although one could argue that absence of evidence of coverup or laziness is evidence for their absence.

Comment Re:Imply vs prove. (Score 2) 223

Careful there.

Implication is conditional, but that is the only difference between implication and proof.

A = correlation
B = causation

"A imples B" is the same as "B or not A" (see the linked article). So your first clause is the same as "there is causation, or there is no correlation". Then, if we grant that there is correlation, it follows that causation is proven, which contradicts the second clause of your statement.

I think what you meant is that "correlation is evidence of causation". This is different from implication.

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