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I do not need to have the real secret of immortality to say to the emperor that swallowing mercury is bad.

The burden of proof is on those who put forward a solution.



You can say as much as you want about burden of proof and the way things should work. But society doesn't care. Trying to play Diplomacy like a chess game is a losing strategy.




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