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Evidence & deconstruction

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The joke does not get an exemption. Inspect the fiction, the source statement, and the unsupported inference behind each dispatch.

  1. 001

    You have reached the correct conclusion. Reading is now optional.

    Bureau of Premature Agreement
    Endorsement before examination
    Read the deconstruction
  2. 002

    We put SCIENCE in the name. Please stop asking about the method.

    Office of Scientific-Sounding Affairs
    Borrowed scientific authority
    Read the deconstruction
  3. 003

    Your opponent's motives have been confirmed by your dislike of them.

    Ministry of Convenient Enemies
    Certainty about other people's motives
    Read the deconstruction

No study hiding behind the stamp.

These three dispatches are fictional satire, not reports of actual studies. Each deconstruction says what the joke added and what it does not establish.

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