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Old 06-11-2008, 02:11 PM
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Proportionality of Evidence

Carl Sagan has been quoted to say, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Generalizing this idea, I think it's widely accepted that the rigor or extent of evidence should be proportional to the extraordinariness of the claim it supports. What are the problems with this notion?

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Jordan
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