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Date
2020-11-15 07:02
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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One example of many logical fallacies [https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/] is the strawman: "Scientists who are convinced of the natural origin base their belief on *Occam's razor*: epidemics from the past have shown that these things do happen in nature, so the simplest explanation is that it happened this time too."

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One example of many logical fallacies [https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/] is the strawman: "Scientists who are convinced of the natural origin base their belief on *Occam's razor*: epidemics from the past have shown that these things do happen in nature, so the simplest explanation is that it happened this time too." quoted / not their view quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks asserts

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  1. 2020-11-15 07:02 Robert F. Garry
    One example of many logical fallacies [https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/] is the strawman: "Scientists who are convinced of the natural origin base their belief on *Occam's razor*: epidemics from the past have shown that these things do happen in nature, so the simplest explanation is that it happened this time too."

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