• hanni@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    He can’t say it definitely because, even though the observational results are convincing, you’d want to produce biological/neurological evidence to be able to make the claim with certainty.

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      1 year ago

      Sure. Then imho if he can’t say it definitively, he should not make the first claim (slipping in weasel words like ‘could’ and ‘up to’ serve as a lazy catch-all disclaimer in that case.)