# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors

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**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")\
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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> I don’t think you understand the mening of the word ‘evidence’. Evidence is not proof. Evidence can be weak or strong, circumstantial or empirical. Evidence needed to start an investigation is not the sme as the evidence needed to convict.

As I asked in the other thread,

> [@"House to start an impeachment inquiry into President Biden"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-to-start-an-impeachment-inquiry-into-president-biden/989995/352):
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> So, they took selfies, played golf, ate dinner… Where’s the _evidence_ that they discussed business?

because I don’t see how if you don’t have evidence that they discussed business then what crime are you investigating?

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