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an act usually made by people who can't come to realize that their government could possibly be corrupt

Enlightened American- Dick Cheney is running this country and George Bush is a paid comedian.

Ignorant American- where the evidence at??

Enlightened American- There's a possibility that either our government or another group that the media doesn't report on could be behind 911.

Ignorant American- where the evidence at??
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by grathom January 8, 2009

Evidence Based Supernaturalism

Evidence based supernaturalism or scientific supernaturalism is a logical supernaturalist current that seeks the empirical and epistemological study of supernaturalism, mainly seeking the development of technologies, devices and methods for the studies of supernaturalism, such as the search for supernatural existence and life.

"Evidence Based Supernaturalism helps logical supernaturalism on its studies about supernaturality and might even be useful for the understanding of supernaturalism and even about how the supernatural and the extraphysical influences the natural and the physical."

"Evidence based supernaturalism might be useful for find scientific evidences about supernaturalism and about extraphysics, the problem is evidence based supernaturalism is against scientific method, considering it as a form of dogmatism and a form of limit people to study things such as supernaturality and even considers scientific method just for natural issues, and new scientific methods might be necessary for supernatural studies."

by Full Monteirism January 6, 2021

Evidence-Based Spirituality

Evidence-Based Spirituality, also known as Scientific Spirituality, Evidence-Based Spiritualism and Scientific Spiritualism, is a form of spirituality that seeks the development of a scientific approach on spirituality and the search for spiritual evidences for spirituality, it opposes the notion that evidences are only highly stringent, repeatable, double-blind, peer reviewed, materialism-compatible research, for all phenomena and it believes in "Different Methods for Different Domains" and in Epistemological Pluralism in order to study spiritual phenomena like Near-Death Experiences, Astral Projection, Mediumship, Out-of-body experiences, Spiritual phenomena, Spiritual experiences, spiritual healing, spirits, souls, consciousness, afterlife, extraphysics, extraphysical life, spiritual worlds, other dimensions and so on. Evidence-Based Spirituality also opposes the notions of scientism and neopositivism and it often uses the notions of extraphysicalism, extramaterialism, extranaturalism and spiritualicism for its studies and the separation of spiritual sciences from natural sciences where natural sciences cannot determine spiritual things and it's a thing that only spiritual sciences can actually determine.

"The notion of evidence-based spirituality might be really good in order to counter the material reductionism and the neopositivism inside the spiritual community and scientific community and the development of spiritual sciences and even lead into new discoveries related to spirituality and everything related to it."

by Full Monteirism June 4, 2021

Evidence to the contrary

Do you HAVE evidence to the contrary that you're just arbitrarily withholding? If you're arbitrarily withholding evidence that she's not being followed. What would you do if you had evidence she WAS being followed? I mean, you ran a rape-farm so I doubt it would be beyond you to lie. Would you 'Do what you thought was best?' If she was right? What excuse do you have not to tell her?

Dr. Rape Farm "Well, you know, I think it's best to, um, deflect to the peripheral elements of her life because THAT'S what I was trained to do. And if I'm wrong 1. I look stupid as fuck. 2. I would lose all of the money I make treating the misdiagnosis. Bet the psychological enterprise is TOO IMPORTANT for you acknowledge evidence to the contrary."

by Hym Iam March 17, 2024

Evidence Double Standards

The hypocritical application of radically different levels of scrutiny and standards for accepting evidence based on whether the evidence supports or challenges one's preferred conclusion. Evidence for the favored view is accepted with minimal question, while evidence against it is subjected to impossible, moving-target demands for perfection.

Example: An activist accepts a single, methodologically shaky study showing benefits of their preferred policy as "proof," but demands five gold-standard, multi-decade, replicative studies before accepting any evidence of potential harms—a classic Evidence Double Standards maneuver.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

Evidence Industry

A critical term for the modern system where facts and data are no longer neutral discoveries but mass-produced commodities. In this "industry," evidence is generated, packaged, and marketed to serve pre-determined political agendas, corporate interests, or ideological conclusions. Think of it as a factory where the desired product (a specific narrative) is designed first, and the raw materials (studies, statistics, expert testimony) are then selectively manufactured or sourced to fit. It turns truth-seeking into a supply-chain management problem for power.

Evidence Industry Example: During a major policy debate—like on climate change or public health—opposing think tanks, media conglomerates, and university labs funded by interested parties all churn out a flood of conflicting reports, charts, and "expert" opinions. This isn't an accident of science; it's the Evidence Industry at work. The public is left drowning in a sea of manufactured certainty, unable to find solid ground because every fact has a corporate or ideological barcode.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 6, 2026

Evidence Pluralism

The principle that what counts as legitimate "evidence" depends on the context and the question being asked. It rejects the idea that only quantitative, statistical data from controlled experiments constitutes valid proof. Under this view, a patient's detailed narrative, a historical document, an ethnographic observation, or a logical model can all serve as robust evidence within their respective domains of inquiry.

Example: In a court of law, Evidence Pluralism is the rule. The case is built on forensic data (DNA), documentary evidence (a contract), testimonial evidence (an eyewitness account), and expert interpretation (a psychologist's analysis). Dismissing the witness's story because it's not a DNA strand would be absurd. Different questions (Who was there? What happened?) require different forms of proof.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 6, 2026