It?s really not that hard to figure out.  Don?t think too hard...  I know
Mikey won?t.

Michael Davis wrote:

Sir Arthur C. B. E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A. wrote:

A bunch of stale old bullshit that got flushed.

How do you become a debunker? Glad you asked.

First, learn to read, and correctly comprehend what you read.

Next don?t waste your newfound reading skills on garbage like
supermarket tabloids, fringe web sites, or books put out by
pseudo-scientific cranks. Stick to mainstream, credible sources.
If a story is real, it will eventually show up there.

Next, have a rubectomy done. Remove all traces of credulity,
faith, gullibility and true belief from your mind. Remember that
just because a lot of people choose to believe in something
doesn?t necessarily mean that it is true.

Learn the definition of evidence as it is used in science. Forget
about the legal definition of evidence, as it is useless for
finding the truth. Law isn?t about truth. If it were then innocent
men would never go to prison and guilty men would never go free.

Next, learn to be skeptical. News flash: Not everyone is telling
the truth. Learn to be skeptical of claims that sound improbable,
impossible, or just plain wrong, especially when they don?t come
with any supporting evidence (see above).

Learn that the onus of proof is always on the claimant. They have
the total obligation to back up their claims. You are under no
obligation whatsoever to try to disprove their claim or locate any
contradictory evidence. The mere failure of a claimant to back up
his claim with evidence is reason enough to assume the claim may
be incorrect.

Don?t let anyone convince you that your standards are too high or
that they are impossible to meet. You will quickly find that
people making claims based in reality will have no trouble backing
up those claims with evidence. Only people whose claims are based
on nothing more than fantasy, faith, delusion or fraud will have
trouble doing so.

Next, challenge anyone making a claim you find improbable to back
up their claim with evidence.

If they cannot or will not produce the requested evidence, point
out to them that they have failed to make their case, and that you
see no valid reason to believe their claim is true.

If they persist in promoting their unproven claim as if it were
fact, then they are clearly engaged in lying. You may now assume
they are just peddling bunk, and begin using debunking tactics
such as ridicule to expose their lies and falsehoods, and remove
any credibility they may have.

Congratulations, you are now a debunker.

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The Evil Michael Davis(tm)
http://mdavis19.tripod.com
http://skepticult.org Member #264-70198-536
Member #33 1/3 of The "I Have Been Killfiled By Tommy" Club

"There's a sucker born every minute" - David Hannum (often
erroneously attributed to P. T. Barnum)

(Why so many question marks k0ok?)

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Hace you fa0m!!!!!!!ll!!!!1!!!!!!!1!!?