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Kurt's avatar

I couldn't remember well with the first one. It was Carl Sagan that originally said....“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. Sagan reworded Laplace's principle, which says that “the weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness”

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What is an "extraordinary claim?" I don't rate Sagan or any of the other scientists who step outside of their lane to talk about things then know nothing about. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/degrasse-tyson-kriss-atheists

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