Quiet, piggies; here's your slop of news

[RockRaven]

1. Note the non-scientific sleight of hand.

First, frame the matter as a claim in the form of a negative declaration, rather than what it actually is: a rejection of the inverse, unproven positive claim.

This enables an attempted shifting of the burden of proof. So secondly, the expectation of proving a negative is raised.

Third, declare by fiat and without reference to evidence that a possibility has not been ruled out. And, as bonus, make this possibility a specific narrow subset/slice of the phenomenon in question rather than the whole.

Having raised an expectation of a broad proven negative, declare the burden has not been met.

Declare therefore that the positive claim is valid.