# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 64
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1261 "2023-11-21T15:10:17Z")
Yes, but both parts taste like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1262 "2023-11-21T16:46:28Z")
With that username I have to take you at your word. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1263 "2023-11-21T19:00:09Z")
![](https://media.tenor.com/8qJkH5EaCYgAAAAC/jessica-simpson-tuna.gif) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1264 "2023-11-21T20:01:05Z")
I’d like to continue this discussion of the various kinds of animal proteins. Maybe we should schedule a Meatup. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1265 "2023-11-21T20:10:22Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Yes, but both parts taste like chicken. - Chicken of the sea. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1266 "2023-11-22T03:12:35Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Chicken of the sea. That was the name of my grandfather’s boat. I can still remember him identifying himself on his CB radio in his heavy Yiddish accent. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1267 "2023-11-29T00:42:10Z")
Yep chunk light mermaid ready to eat [![](https://www.kroger.com/product/images/large/back/0004800001164) ](https://www.kroger.com/product/images/large/back/0004800001164) (you can tell the what’s in a can by the picture on the label right?) ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1268 "2023-11-29T14:41:10Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yep chunk light mermaid ready to eat It’s not cannibalism because you only eat the bottom half. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1269 "2023-12-09T20:07:39Z")
Looks like Sam has turned yet another thread into the **Sam\_Stone** show. Not that I’ve actually read any of his posts. But clearly some people have, though I’m still not sure why they bother… > [@What is going on with the antisemitism from these college heads?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-going-on-with-the-antisemitism-from-these-college-heads/994173/185): > > If this thread will let me post, which it may not (software glitch, refreshing the thread made it disappear momentarily but that may not last): Those who are supporting Israel because they think Israel’s existence is necessary for Revelations and/or the Second Coming to take place, but who expect all Jews to either convert immediately when that occurs or else be sent to their Hell, are not opposing anti-semitism. They are being anti-semitic, whatever public noises they make to the contrary, and… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1270 "2023-12-09T20:20:07Z")
Par for the course, including everyone thinking that gosh, maybe this time they’ll get through to him. I did really love this gem by him in the ATMB thread about AI. > So the onus is on the poster to fact-check the LLM output before posting it, just asthey are supposed to fact-check themselves before posting. I don’t see a problem there. Don’t post wrong stuff. Do your homework. Just 5-star haute cuisine irony there. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1271 "2023-12-09T20:46:58Z")
I knew he was doing it, and thanks to the power of “ignore” was able to continue on reading the thread. But too many people once again tried to think there is reasoning or just bad information going on. Thankfully, the other thread is ALSO in the Pit, so I called him out. Hopefully others will take the hint. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1272 "2023-12-09T20:50:55Z")
Of course this is about Sam’s factual errors, employing the shooting the messenger fallacy, first to the cites I made and then to apply it to me, was really pitiful and a factual error. But then, it is good to notice that he shows to all that he is a wanker x2. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1273 "2023-12-09T21:03:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Par for the course, including everyone thinking that gosh, maybe this time they’ll get through to him. Oh, I don’t think I’ll get through to _him_. Other people read the threads, including those who don’t post. ETA: And this is an area with a whole lot of ignorance out there, some of it in the minds of people who are capable of learning. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1274 "2023-12-09T21:16:16Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Oh, I don’t think I’ll get through to _him_. Other people read the threads, including those who don’t post. It’s a nice sentiment, but if he posts 50 pieces of garbage in a thread, 49 of them are because people are falling all over themselves to prove somebody wrong on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1275 "2023-12-09T22:52:16Z")
First of all, thank you for sharing that ATMB post, because that is truly hilarious. Second of all, this is exactly the problem. When I see a Sam post, I just stop reading the thread because it will be dead for a day or two while people beat their head against a wall. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1276 "2023-12-13T20:23:13Z")
Over in Hunter land, Sam is upset that people aren’t trusting his cite. > [@Will Joe Biden pardon Hunter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-joe-biden-pardon-hunter/994425/56): > > Got it. My comment was mostly for the people who won’t read the cite and assume it’s some right wing glurge. No, Sam it’s not the cite that people don’t trust. It’s the person posting the cite. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1277 "2023-12-13T23:42:00Z")
I really liked this part, > [@Will Joe Biden pardon Hunter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-joe-biden-pardon-hunter/994425/48): > > In addition, sentences are increased in the following cases: > > > [@](#): > > > > Sentences were increased for: > >  using sophisticated means to execute or conceal the offense (11.8%); > >  a leadership or supervisory role in the offense (7.1%); > >  abusing a public position of trust or using a special skill (3.7%); > >  obstructing or impeding the administration of justice (4.3%). > > Not sure about obstruction of justice, but Hunter ticks all the other boxes. Yeah, ticks those boxes for you . . . but notice he in no way, IMHO, justified the ticking. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1278 "2023-12-13T23:46:05Z")
He’s Hunter Biden. He had a laptop. What more could you possibly need? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1279 "2023-12-13T23:47:43Z")
Sentences were increased for: - Having a laptop (10000000%). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1280 "2023-12-13T23:56:21Z")
In a world where we have to live according to our beliefs, I truly wish the mods had held firm in punishing Sam for his kids misdeeds. Sadly, we don’t live in such a world… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881.md?page=65)