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  • This “burden of proof” premise leads him to overcredit like-minded modelling “climate experts,” and discredit critics like Crichton and Lindzen.

    Unthreaded #10 « Climate Audit 2007

  • It was so easy to overcredit others: so impossible to write down their motives to the level of our own uncharitable truth.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Their variety was indeed admirable, but apart from that they shocked me not a little, for I could not but see that as ready a way as any of discrediting true religion is to overcredit it; and that, where people believe in a miracle, to give them a glib hundred is to tempt them to infidelity.

    The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

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