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citing a paper that says it found “no evidence” of something always seems weak to me in terms of refuting something, I also found no evidence by doing nothing, how do I know the thing you checked or the context in which it was checked is any better than my doing nothing?

not finding something doesn’t seem any more or less convincing…



I think it's called "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" ?


It is, though. What it is not, is proof of absence.


I claim I am god. Pretty much everyone who knows me suggested there’s no evidence of me being god. Would you say not finding that I’m god doesn’t seem any more or less convincing?


> [H]ow do I know the thing you checked or the context in which it was checked is any better than my doing nothing?

Open the paper and look for it's methodology.




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