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Chuck Grassley was at the forefront of pushing these claims to begin with.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I know it's a glass half empty headline. These tapes might exist. If something might exist it needs to be investigated and talked about ad nauseum until its lack of existence can be proven.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's the problem though, you can't really prove a negative. By the nature of logic. At best, if it is a lie, the original source admits they lied.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can however reach a level of confidence about a negative.

Like, I can't prove that putting my VR headset on didn't actually send me to another world... but I've got a pretty high degree of confidence that it didn't.

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