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Is there another time in your life where this happened, where you were confident something was false without knowing the real answer?

Of course! It happens to all people who think critically. It (almost) never happens to those who don't.

It isn't so much a "confidence", as a conclusion based on reasonably rigorous research. Of course i do have confidence in that conclusion, and - like everyone else - have been wrong many times in the past.

I just want to make clear the distinction between a suspicion / gut instinct that something is incorrect and what we are discussing.

An example, one of many, is that consumption of large amounts of fat caused and/or contributed to obesity. I concluded that was false long before it was commonly known.

Knowing it isn't fat consumption causing mass obesity in industrialized nations, sadly - and for the exact same reasons, does not automatically provide you with the true root/primary cause. This is just the way critical evaluation works.

Replying to https://communities.win/c/Conspiracies/p/17rmSnG7lZ/x/c/4Z7RBNw30ke (sadly thread limit was reached :()

Is there another time in your life where this happened, where you were confident something was false without knowing the real answer?

Of course! It happens to all people who think critically. It (almost) never happens to those who don't.

It isn't so much a "confidence", as a conclusion based on reasonably rigorous research. Of course i do have confidence in that conclusion, and like everyone else have been wrong many times in the past.

I just want to make clear the distinction between a suspicion / gut instinct that something is incorrect and what we are discussing.

An example, one of many, is that consumption of large amounts of fat caused and/or contributed to obesity. I concluded that was false long before it was commonly known.

Knowing it isn't fat consumption causing mass obesity in industrialized nations, sadly - and for the exact same reasons, does not automatically provide you with the true root/primary cause. This is just the way critical evaluation works.