...A little rain must fall

[applecorped]

Fess up...who has actually conceded a point to a troother and what was it?

[AZCat]

Fess up...who has actually conceded a point to a troother and what was it?

I have occasionally done this. I forget what the points were. Because my self-image is not dependent on pretending I'm infallible, I don't obsess about those times.

[Blender Head]

I once said the Fed started in 1907, that's the only relevant point I can think of.

[gumboot]

I claimed that Danny Jowenko was not a qualified blaster. Dictator Cheney corrected me and showed me that an Explosive Engineer and a blaster are the same thing. I thanked DC for his correction.

[DC]

I claimed that Danny Jowenko was not a qualified blaster. Dictator Cheney corrected me and showed me that an Explosive Engineer and a blaster are the same thing. I thanked DC for his correction.

well :)

i just corrected that he is a blaster, but i think it is still debatable if he is a qualified blaster, qualified in the meaning of, he prolly never blasted a building in the size of 7.

[16.5]

I conceeded that everything every CIT witness said was the absolute truth.

Including the fact that all of them said the plane hit the pentagon.

[GlennB]

I've done this a few times, mostly through being over-hasty or over-confident with a reply. Can't remember the details though.

[DC]

i missunderstood the Truss Core connections.
e^n pointed me to NIST drawings that cleared it up.

(e^n is not a twoofer afaik :D )

[Horatius]

I once admitted a quote that I thought was a fabrication was in fact accurate. (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?postid=2961415#post2961415) (note: link in that post is wrong- correct link shows up in a later post, if you really care all that much!)


Of course, they were taking it completely out of context, and giving it far greater weight than it should have had, but it was accurate.

[The Doc]

I'm sure I have at some point. As a critical thinker, despite trying to be correct at all times, I acknowledge that I can also be wrong.

That being said, I certainly haven't conceded enough for someone to conclude that 9/11 was an inside job based on the points I have admitted were likely wrong.

[mrbaracuda]

Sure, not everything they say is a strawman! Just like, 90%. :D

[aggle-rithm]

I once harassed a truther (who claimed to be an architect) for misusing the term "facade". I later admitted that his use of the word was correct after all.

[aggle-rithm]

I'm sure I have at some point. As a critical thinker, despite trying to be correct at all times, I acknowledge that I can also be wrong.

That being said, I certainly haven't conceded enough for someone to conclude that 9/11 was an inside job based on the points I have admitted were likely wrong.

There were times when I have conceded many points at a time for the sake of argument. What I was trying to do was to get the discussion focused on something central to the issue at hand, rather than getting bogged down in semantics or trivial details. It's safe to concede those points, because their only purpose is to delay the truther's inevitable defeat.