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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Being wrong is NOT being fake

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2022, 08:19 AM

Mar 2022

To my mind, a lie is when the liar knows the lie is wrong or fake.

When a child says "The tooth fairy gave me a quarter", we don't say they are lying.

When a scientist said "A neutrino has no mass" in 2000, they weren't lying. Neutrinos were found to have tiny mass in 2001.

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Sorry, I Lied About Fake News [View all] Celerity Mar 2022 OP

Being wrong is NOT being fake Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #1

In this case the wrong (not fake) news had a three year head start, so Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #2