HansHill wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 10:36 am
Nessie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 8:12 am
If two scientists have competing theories, is the scientist whose theory is evidenced to have happened, more or less likely to be correct, than the scientist whose theory is not evidenced to have happened?
If that evidence is eyewitness claims, then no. In that instance it will be judged on the merits of the arguments presented and which arguments are supported scientifically.
The reason why you want to reject eyewitness claims, is because you know it is 100% in my favour. If it was the other way around, you would not reject it. You are evidentially wrong to reject eyewitnesses out of hand. When there are a lot of eyewitnesses to an event and importantly, they would not normally cooperate and certain not collude, corroborating testimony is normally regarded as strong. When accused and accuser agree, that is normally taken as proof.
In any case, gassings are also supported by documents recording the construction of heated undressing rooms, barracks to store property, gas chambers, ovens for multiple corpse cremations, for the circumstantial evidence of a special, secretive operation involving inform prisoners, Jews and Hungarians. There is also evidence of motive, opportunity and guilty conduct after the crime.
Eyewitnesses, documents and circumstantial evidence all converge with the forensic evidence, gassings took place.