# 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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**Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/425 "2023-01-17T13:14:55Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> “On a quick scan this article seems like it backs up what I am saying, I’ll go ahead and cite it. No need to read it all carefully, I must get in my post **now** before somebody posts something else.”
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> I’ve seen people use a cite and admit later they didn’t read it enough to realize it didn’t say what they thought, or that there was context to make their point moot.

Yup. I’ve done it before myself. When I do, it’s humiliating, and I grovel.

@Sam_Stone, in a thread about Musk a week or so ago, made an egregious error. Defending Musk against snark about his apparent ignorance of electric rockets, [Sam cited a “follow-up” Tweet to Musk’s “LOL No [electric rockets]” post in which he explained his thinking.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition/963442/2578)

[The problem was the that “follow-up” Tweet was from several years earlier](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition/963442/2598).

Sam did admit that he was wrong–but had the chutzpah to [claim that his case was made **stronger**](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition/963442/2599). And then he doubled down to claim that Musk was strictly accurate.

When I cited NASA to show he was wrong, the silence was predictable.

@Sam_Stone is a profoundly lazy thinker, and blames the disagreements on the laziness of others instead of engaging in some real introspection about why he keeps making so many mistakes.

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