Hypothesis: Cancel culture drives the rise in Conspiracy Theories.

Where is the so-called "hypothesis" in this sentence? I don't see anything remotely resembling an hypothesis.

In simple grammatical terms the sentence is an assertoric proposition. There is no "antecedent proposition" [following an "IF" syncategorematic term] followed by a "consequent proposition" preceded by a "THEN" syncategorematic term. In short and in sum one requires two propositions [following the pair of syncategorematic terms IF ... THEN ...] to form an hypothesis.

Scientifically, the phrase "drives the rise" could be replaced with the single actually scientific term, "CAUSE". Thus one would obtain a dubiously "scientific" thesis from Spyridon to the effect that: "Cancel culture CAUSES Conspiracy Theories."

Spyridon then proceeds to find support for his thesis from various sources with whom he agrees --- classical example of having a possible bias and then looking for confirmation thereof.

I would submit that it is far more likely that ACTUAL CONSPIRATORS get together and CANCEL their presumed enemies, without being very secretive (at all) about their conspiratorial cooperation in such endeavors.

This site is supposed to be about STEM --- isn't it??? That would be science, technology, engineering and math. Spyridon's post doesn't seem to match competent grammar in its title, although the rest of the post is entirely literate without being scientific.

Kevin

Jun 11
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2:31 AM