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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (793414)7/3/2014 8:02:08 PM
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If liberals ever called their positions "beliefs," they would never be able to force them upon others. Instead, they have to call their positions "fact," or "truth," or "scientific consensus."


I suppose that is correct, but it isn't a big reach, to saying something synonymous like "I am convinced of this truth" and equivocating that with a "belief" statement.

They slip sometimes. I see Koan criticising right wingers for not believing in science or evolution, and I see him do it often, and comparing the "truth" of science against the mysticism of religion. Maybe he is an exception though, I haven't paid that much attention.

I will bow to your statement as the prevailing convention until I actually see some significant evidence to substantiate my worries.
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