I keep seeing people mix up 'debunked' with 'debated' in conspiracy talk
I mean, maybe it's just me but I see this all the time. Someone will bring up a point about, I don't know, the moon landing, and another person will just say 'that's been debunked' and drop a link. But half the time the link is just to a forum post or a YouTube video arguing the other side, not actual proof. It matters because saying something is debunked shuts down the talk, but saying it's debated means we can actually look at the details. I was in a chat about the JFK thing last week and a guy said the single bullet theory was debunked, but when I asked for the source, he just sent a 4 hour documentary. That's not a debunk, that's another take. How do you guys tell when something is actually settled versus just having two loud sides?