“Extraordinary claims,” astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “require extraordinary evidence.”
Sagan was actually re-stating Pierre-Simon Laplace’s principle, which holds that:
“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”
And what could be stranger than the modern-day notion that humans, an irrefutably binary …
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