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Apr 16, 2020 at 10:22 comment added LangLаngС This is quite circumstantial reasoning and less a presentation of evidence, as required here. Snopes has some, but you just link to it. And then I'd consider any answer tackling this as incomplete if it doesn't deal with scirp.org/html/81838_81838.htm (The whole topic is making the rounds again, with 'science proved it' attached. Please upgrade your answer.)
Nov 16, 2014 at 18:18 comment added ChrisW I don't know whether the 'size' analogies are apt. Obviously with carbon-dating it's not just whether it's present that matters but how much. Is the same true of HCG in vaccines: that it's unremarkable find some, and that what matters is how much?
Nov 15, 2014 at 19:41 comment added Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI @ChrisW in my specific example, a Maine Coon cat is large enough that the average human will need both arms to carry one. A Chihuahua fits in a ladies' purse and tends to be highly strung. If I were to report the heart rate for the latter over the phone to a vet that's assuming I'm talking about the former, the vet's going to conclude the poor cat is about one sudden loud noise away from either cardiac arrest or a berserk state...
Nov 15, 2014 at 19:30 comment added Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI @ChrisW As for the "bad input yields useless conclusions" -- imagine being asked to carbon-date something without being told that it's actually a non-organic material. Chances are you'd wind up running useless tests with nonsensical results until and unless the penny drops and you realize you're not dealing with what you assumed you were handed...
Nov 15, 2014 at 19:23 comment added Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI @ChrisW Fair enough. Stripped some of the more inflammatory language out. I was kind of cranky when I wrote it.
Nov 15, 2014 at 19:23 history edited Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI CC BY-SA 3.0
Removed some of the more inflammatory parts of the post.
Nov 15, 2014 at 18:14 comment added ChrisW If you'd remove the hostile and/or mocking responses to untenable claims you'd have more opportunity give better evidence of whether the claim is true or false. At the moment it's difficult to see what's actually "evidence" in your answer and what's just hand-wavy cries of outrage. FWIW I have some background (i.e. O-level) in chemistry but I can't confirm from my own experience whether your 2nd-last paragraph is true, and the fact that you have such an evident bias doesn't incline me towards trusting what you say as a matter of faith.
Nov 15, 2014 at 16:21 history answered Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI CC BY-SA 3.0