Do you know what historians, journalists and criminal investigators do, to determine eyewitness truthfulness and accuracy?
You mean like this historian?
Do you know what historians, journalists and criminal investigators do, to determine eyewitness truthfulness and accuracy, such as the claims made by Blaha and about the gas chambers at Dachau?HansHill wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 1:47 pmYou mean like this historian?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Benz
You mean like these criminal investigators?
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No, there are lazy investigators who will repeat myths. However, the articles you showed, the second one makes it clear there were no gas chambers and the first is not specific about gas chambers.
"the second one makes it clear there were no gas chambers"Nessie wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 2:03 pmNo, there are lazy investigators who will repeat myths. However, the articles you showed, the second one makes it clear there were no gas chambers and the first is not specific about gas chambers.
Do you know what historians, journalists and criminal investigators do, to determine eyewitness truthfulness and accuracy?
No, in this case the burden of proof is unquestionably on you when it comes to data and statistics. We already know there were several hundred thousand survivors. Even if 1% of those survivors were reunited, you'd still find more than 1,000 reunions. Finding a dozen in news article is less than meaningless.Callafangers wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 6:16 amI think it is you who needs to first validate your expectation for any particular number threshold of reunions. You have made no such attempt.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 5:21 am
A small percent of DNA reunions are expected. Unless you make a statistically sound argument, copying even 50 articles, won't prove anything.
Is 51 sufficient? Or is 100? Why 100 instead of 51? You cannot explain any of this, though you'll no doubt run it through ChatGPT.![]()
If you are trying to write something off before you even know what it is that you are going to write off, that's clearly a sign of intellectual dishonesty. But let's put that aside, yes if there was no Holocaust why were those things found on the Auschwitz site?
Ya you don't understand the argument that you are making. If there are going to be many false positives, you'd expect to find way more false cases of reunited survivors and you simply don't see even a fraction of as many as you'd expect if the Holocaust was fake. Like not even within the same solar system.Callafangers wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 8:07 am
I missed this earlier.
If you're talking about finding closer relatives (which is generally the case for our discussion), it is harder for Ashkenazi Jews due to this bottleneck. The frequency of false positives creates more problems than the benefit of high detectability of shared/bottlenecked DNA (which only really adds value when you're seeking very distant relatives as closer family will always have enough mutual detectability).
Reading comprehension, please.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 2:23 pmIf you are trying to write something off before you even know what it is that you are going to write off, that's clearly a sign of intellectual dishonesty. But let's put that aside, yes if there was no Holocaust why were those things found on the Auschwitz site?
This wasn't a concession. It's just me being intellectually honest based on the facts that I see. This was also what I was told when I visited Dachau. However, it seems that there is still debate among historians about what the gas chambers were used for and whether or not they were used to kill some prisoners. It seems pretty clear that at the very least, they were not used nearly as extensively as in some of the other camps.HansHill wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 11:07 am
"not used for systematic mass exterminations"
Glad to hear this concession. Now kindly reflect upon the above what I taught you about people falsely claiming that it was. I'll include more examples here so you know these weren't just "once offs" or accidental whoopsies
And just to remind you, the one from earlier:
Maybe i was mistaken before about you understanding the origin of the fake stories and how they can grow over time, but surely now you must?
I am not sure. I will look into this and see what's going on.
As a basic rule, I don't have a problem with people referencing other people in this debate or other sources or even ChatGPT or other AI. ChatGPT is fine in my opinion because it's facts and arguments are clearly laid out.
I don't know exactly what these things demonstrate other than the fact that these camps were not normal prison camps.HansHill wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 2:32 pmReading comprehension, please.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 2:23 pmIf you are trying to write something off before you even know what it is that you are going to write off, that's clearly a sign of intellectual dishonesty. But let's put that aside, yes if there was no Holocaust why were those things found on the Auschwitz site?
I asked you to clarify before giving you my answer to avoid the scenario you described.
The David Irving book I cited from is called "Nuremberg - The Last Battle" and the citation visible in the screenshot is 435. That citation brings you directly to the affidavits of those three men. You can surely find a copy of the book online and verify his integrity.ConfusedJew wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 2:54 pmAs a basic rule, I don't have a problem with people referencing other people in this debate or other sources or even ChatGPT or other AI. ChatGPT is fine in my opinion because it's facts and arguments are clearly laid out.
But if you make an appeal to David Irving as an authority, it doesn't do anything for me because I don't find him credible whatsoever. And even if I did, I would want to know why he's arguing what he argued. I would rather just have his argument laid out in front. No need to even reference him if you don't want. Plagiarism doesn't matter to me at all as long as the arguments and evidence are clear.