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> ”…without proof, it's just as plausible as…”

You may be interested to know that people whose job requires them to be epistemologically rigorous do not think in this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_epistemology#Fundamen...

Historical lightning map: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=30

Go back to June 1 for a good example of lots of lightning in the right area. https://imgur.com/a/LcM8sMe

June 6 also has some in the same rough area of Quebec

I don't see how one could reasonably say a thing that has happened before and a thing that hasn't happened before are equally plausible explanations for a thing that is currently happening.

I don't know about in the US, but in Canada in recent weeks there have been conspiracy theories floating around that the wildfires in Alberta were started by The Libs™ in order to make the provincial Conservative government look bad in the lead-up to an election.

So, uh, keep in mind that some commenters might be Just Asking Questions.

I don't wanna be too cynical but I did look at the accounts of the two people in this thread who seem to find the idea plausible and found...pretty much exactly what I expected to find. So, yeah, I agree with you, lotta JAQing off.

Satellites will pick it up if it's lightning. It's very common (see giant fires on the West Coast in the past few years).

Coordinated arson of that massive a scale would be incredibly difficult, and what would be the motivation to do that?

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