XPost: alt.astronomy   
   From: MrPostingRobot@kymhorsell.com   
      
   In alt.astronomy Whisper  wrote:   
   > On 9/01/2023 8:48 am, R Kym Horsell wrote:   
   >> In alt.astronomy casagiannoni@optimum.net wrote:   
   >>> There are no UFOs or alien visits !   
   >> You cant prove a negative so we suspect you are lying.   
   > So I can come up with any old horseshit and if you can't prove it's   
   > wrong you're lying?   
   ...   
      
   To revise junior grade school where you were supposed to learn   
   this kinda stuff...   
      
   Negative theories -- that things dont exist or are impossible --   
   are fraut because you need to know everything to rule out all   
   the possibilities.   
      
   If someone tries to claim what they say is true yet in principle   
   can not have evidence for that claim then they are being misleading.   
   I.e. lying.   
      
   If they are a gutless anonymous poster on social media then I   
   figgure that is already obvious.   
      
   Elsewhere psychologists find that people that habitually put things   
   into the negative are likely habitual liars. They grew up in   
   a Bart Simpson context always telling mummy and daddy "I didnt do it".   
      
   --   
   http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=1907   
   'Liars say "I am not a crook" rather than "I am honest" '   
   Liars use short sentences, the past tense and negative statements   
   Bella DePaula, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia,   
   has found, in a study of 3,000 people, that the following clues are   
   the most useful indicators of whether somebody is lying:   
   # Lack of specific detail - not volunteering names of people and places   
   # Short answers   
   # Using the past tense   
   # Using negative statements  ("not a crook" rather than "honest")   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)