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I don't know about it, therefore it must not exist

2022-09-03 (Saturday)
Tags: history experts fallacy

Dr. Charles E. Molnar: Metastability Lecture: One reviewer made a marvelous comment in rejecting one of the early papers, saying that if this problem really existed it would be so important that everybody knowledgeable in the field would have to know about it, and “I’m an expert and I don’t know about it, so therefore it must not exist.”