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What is the cognitive bias called in which you see an internet post talking about a personal experience that is clearly perfectly plausible/likely, but instead choose to down vote them and assert the said experience is fraudulent by citing a wikipedia article that is barely incidentally related?

This is clearly a flavor-of-the-month tool that has been getting much coverage on these sorts of sites lately, why impune the guys mental function?




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