I was thinking purely in terms of evidence levels against the belief
Well, your examples are not very well balanced by level of evidence against, although it’s hard to compare this across different domains.
Could you expand why you think they don’t have about the same levels of evidence against? They seemed to to me, but it is possible that I’m missing something. I agree that making such comparisons across domains may be tough.
Oops. I was comparing Birtherism to controlled demolition theories and forgot that not all 9/11 Truther theories were that crazy.
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Well, your examples are not very well balanced by level of evidence against, although it’s hard to compare this across different domains.
Could you expand why you think they don’t have about the same levels of evidence against? They seemed to to me, but it is possible that I’m missing something. I agree that making such comparisons across domains may be tough.
Oops. I was comparing Birtherism to controlled demolition theories and forgot that not all 9/11 Truther theories were that crazy.