Is There a Dragon in My Garage?

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There has to some way to test it, or else you're just asserting things without evidence. The key there is to be able to say in advance what would count, right? And then you get into b whats what constitutes quality evidence in support of your particular hypothesis? That's where it gets trickier but at that point, i think you are talking about a evidence. I mean, that the dragon thing reminds me of my conversations with flat earthers, right? Every time you say something, then it's, oh, no, no, that wouldn't count. What about the moon landing? No, that didn't happen. How do you know there's a dome? Well

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