# A big hand for Stoid, she ate a book.

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**Created:** [March 9, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-hand-for-stoid-she-ate-a-book/574063 "2011-03-09T16:49:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-big-hand-for-stoid-she-ate-a-book/574063/145 "2011-03-16T19:24:08Z")

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> [@LilyoftheField](#):
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> And yet, when Stoid originally stated that she was halfway through the book, she took a lot of shit for daring to believe that she could reach any valid conclusions from just reading half of a book! Half a book! What an idiot! And she thought people were going to take her seriously?? Haahhahahahahahahaha!!!

Christ, you really are as dumb as curlcoat, aren’t you?

Stoid read half a book _that agreed with her original opinion_ and started making grand pronouncements like:

> [@I unhappily report that I am right about obesity and diet (Very long)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-unhappily-report-that-i-am-right-about-obesity-and-diet-very-long/571543/220):
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> Read the book. The actual book itself, not summaries or reviews. Get an education.

You don’t get to be that smug and self righteous after reading half of a shitty book. At least not without getting made fun of.

Point is, if you want people to accept this paradigm shift that goes against all common wisdom, the burden of proof is on your shoulders. If you want to refer to that paradigm shift as ‘getting an education’ and put down other people for not seeing the light, you better have a damn lot of proof. Half a book is a tad insufficient, to put it lightly.

You don’t need the same amount of proof or reading to determine that some crackpot is spewing bullshit. Especially if you make it clear that you are just expressing your opinion about said shitty book, and not espousing some grand theory about what all overweight people should do. I don’t need to read every word of Answers in Genesis to know that I think creationism is bullshit. Besides which, I and others provided links to independent reviews and other cites to support our case - something which Stoid almost never does.

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