(January 16, 2023 at 11:51 am)Angrboda Wrote:(January 16, 2023 at 11:09 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: So if no other study even tried to estimate the number of lives saved by guns each year in the US... shouldn't we go with the Gary Kleck's study that estimated it to be around 300'000? The burden of proof is on somebody to demonstrate that Gary Kleck's study is wrong, that, if you control for various biases, you get a different number. Since nobody demonstrated that, the burden of proof stays on people who claim Gary Kleck's study is wrong.
That's not how burden of proof works and is essentially an argument from ignorance. "Nobody has proved it wrong, therefore it is right."
If you think it's enough to complain about the flaws in methodology to discard a study, read up on conspiracy theorists (perhaps The Mad Revisionists - the conspiracy theorists who claim the Moon doesn't exist) and consider the matters again. You cannot manufacture the truth by discarding the evidence. That's not how science works. Gary Kleck's study is, until you point to a better study, the best data we have.
