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Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study (theconversation.com)

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[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

The "can't rule out" fallacy, often referred to as the appeal to ignorance, occurs when someone argues that a lack of evidence against a claim is taken as evidence for its truth. This fallacy suggests that if something cannot be disproven, it must be true, which is a flawed way of reasoning.

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