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Exactly, it's a forum not Twitter/reddit. Without references and citations this is no better than a bunch of random words, and it's hard to make any argument of substance.

The person asked for citations, leave it be, stop dudexplaining how Internet works for you please.

I call bs on your 2 comments.

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They didn't ask for citations. They pointed out a citation was needed. It was a clever sounding way of calling bs. They admit as much.

Even when people sincerely ask for a citation on a debatable topic, on an internet forum, it's effectively saying "I won't be hear any opinion that doesn't match my own unless it's as water tight as a law of physics". Another form of this is "show me the data".

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