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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7929671, member: 105571&quot;]Evidence?&nbsp; An unsupported claim is just that.&nbsp; I can claim you are a green-skinned alien and who is to gainsay me.&nbsp; Oh, I have no evidence to back up my claim.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a close friend who is a dedicated conspiracy theorist.&nbsp; You name the wacky claim and he says he found it in the fever swamps of the internet where &quot;they&quot; said it was so.&nbsp; Nevertheless, we are close friends and we enjoy the byplay that results from his ludicrous claims.&nbsp; I will never convince him of anything and vice versa because, respectively, he is not interested in anything that does not support his preferred narrative and because I won&#039;t consider anything to be factual without credible evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, in the interest of the debate and not out of any animus, please provide some evidence of your claims.&nbsp; I am persuadable but only by evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, most of the folks talking about the Greek coin dealer in this thread are not so much &quot;blaming the victim&quot; as trying to learn something from that unfortunate&#039;s fate.&nbsp; In other words;&nbsp; &quot;What did he do or not do that contributed to his becoming a victim and what practices can I adopt that will protect me in the future?&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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