There was a time, many years ago, when I paid close attention to the arguments of the “truthers”, and came to the conclusion that they were wrong. What you’re doing now is bringing up the same old arguments with no obviously new evidence. I’m not going to give you my full attention, not because I want to close my eyes to the truth, but because I already looked at the evidence and already, in Bayesian terminology, updated my priors. Revisiting old evidence and arguments as if they were fresh evidence would arguably be an irrational thing for me to do, because it would be treating one piece of evidence as if it were two, updating twice on the same, rehashed, points that I’ve already considered.
I did not downvote you, because I have a soft spot for that sort of thing, but if other people have already, long ago, considered the best arguments and evidence, then at this point you really are wasting their time. It’s not that they’re rejecting evidence, I suspect, but that they’re rejecting having their time being taken up with old evidence that they’ve already taken into account.
There was a time, many years ago, when I paid close attention to the arguments of the “truthers”, and came to the conclusion that they were wrong. What you’re doing now is bringing up the same old arguments with no obviously new evidence. I’m not going to give you my full attention, not because I want to close my eyes to the truth, but because I already looked at the evidence and already, in Bayesian terminology, updated my priors. Revisiting old evidence and arguments as if they were fresh evidence would arguably be an irrational thing for me to do, because it would be treating one piece of evidence as if it were two, updating twice on the same, rehashed, points that I’ve already considered.
I did not downvote you, because I have a soft spot for that sort of thing, but if other people have already, long ago, considered the best arguments and evidence, then at this point you really are wasting their time. It’s not that they’re rejecting evidence, I suspect, but that they’re rejecting having their time being taken up with old evidence that they’ve already taken into account.