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Entry: From the Rubble Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/from_the_rubble#23109 Post contents: And it also might be true that if you step on a crack, you will break your mother's back. But until this claim is verified by an osteologist, an orthopedic surgeon, and an osteopathic physician, and by the consensus of their scientific communities, not only will I not believe the claim, but I'll consider it quite risible. Nor am I obliged to prove the negative. <i>Unless you have an appropriate degree from a certified degree-granting institution, you cannot make such a statement, at least under the criteria you have erected.</i> Forget for a minute that Tu Quoque is a fallacy. The truth is that I am not obliged to prove a negative. It is even a greater fallacy to say an unproven negative proves the positive. It is no lesser mortal than Boyd Cathey who has made a positive claim, not me, and a positive claim about skin color. He has offered no evidence for his claim, nor shown any credentials to make such a claim. And until such evidence and such credentials are forthcoming, readers should ignore what he has to say about skin color. He does indeed have credentials about the Carlist ideology. So why doesn't he write an article for Takimag, submit it to the editor, and see if it's published? An article about Carlism I'd take seriously if Boyd Cathey were its author. And such an article would be timely, given the stated goal of rethinking conservatism. Sent at: 2008 07 08