It's not just a character attack to point out that a glorified blog post pulled that number out of thin air.
It would be silly to ask someone to prove that a made up number is made up. How can I provide evidence for lack of evidence. A more reasonable starting point would be to bring up what evidence does exist for the 40k number and then evaluate that.
If you want to continue believing it, that's your prerogative. I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just doing my part to counter misinformation from biased sources.
FWIW, the Human Rights Activists in Iran (Virginia-based NGO) puts the figure at 6,488
It is a character attack to call into question the validity of the source in general.
You did not provide evidence for your claim. You offered something else entirely. In the future it would be better to provide what is being requested instead of a distraction.
I don't have strong beliefs on this, I just wanted a conclusive source. You did not provide one.
You made the claim it's misinformation, support your claim (as you hold the burden of proof for your own claim given it's contrary to the status quo). You haven't tried that hard, you might as well give it a real shot.
>I doubt you even took the time to read the investigation done by The Guardian.
It did not address your claim at all.
>The onus of evidence is on the person that initially claimed the 40k number.
No, that is not how the burden of proof works. It is not in the context of all things said in all time. You said it was false in this conversation, you support that assertion.
>You have made zero attempt to support yours.
I don't have a claim.
You don't seem to understand the terms I'm using here so this is probably not productive to continue.
If someone makes a claim like "Mongolia just killed 562 students", we shouldn't be asking the person who points out that number is baseless to prove that it's baseless. We should ask the initial person to back up their claim.
