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Originally Posted by Engine Serang
Does anyone remember the scribbles of Erich Anton Paul von Däniken who started many rows in the Smokerooms of the 1970's?
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Oh yes, I probably still have a couple of his books.
They were interesting, not for his theories, but from his system of argument. It is something that academics and legal folk still hold up as how NOT to prove a proposal.
A string of concepts, opinions and what-ifs is presented as ‘proof’ because they are put across in such a manner that they appear be linked and supporting, which mostly, they are not.
On the other hand newspapers continue to use the same technique.