The other comment under mine replied for me. Also, something is false until evidence is provided, not the opposite. In this case, I'm very confident that the post is creative writing.
What is the evidence that the story is false then? You can't require a high standard to believe something is true but not that it's false. That would be a contradiction.
I don't consider myself an expert in this area so I looked up the page on Skepticism on Wikipedia and it says this:
skeptics normally recommend not disbelief but suspension of belief, i.e. maintaining a neutral attitude that neither affirms nor denies the claim.
This makes a lot more sense to me. Regardless, I believe there is plenty of evidence in the Reddit thread that this is indeed a false story - it's just when I initially read your comment I hadn't considered that evidence since you didn't mention it.
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The other comment under mine replied for me. Also, something is false until evidence is provided, not the opposite. In this case, I'm very confident that the post is creative writing.
What is the evidence that the story is false then? You can't require a high standard to believe something is true but not that it's false. That would be a contradiction.
There is no contradiction, my logic follows a common approach in skepticism, where claims are treated as false until evidence is provided.
I don't consider myself an expert in this area so I looked up the page on Skepticism on Wikipedia and it says this:
This makes a lot more sense to me. Regardless, I believe there is plenty of evidence in the Reddit thread that this is indeed a false story - it's just when I initially read your comment I hadn't considered that evidence since you didn't mention it.