# Still support nuke power plants?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-support-nuke-power-plants/574647>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 14, 2011, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-support-nuke-power-plants/574647 "2011-03-14T11:56:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-support-nuke-power-plants/574647/1435 "2011-06-14T13:39:49Z")

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Now please don’t misunderstand, even on these forums the rampant abuse of language is busy at work. Like a cancer it seems to have spread all over the internet, mostly in forums argumentums, but it even creeps into the blogosphere.

> **[What makes a good cite?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=11439)**
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> The nature of these boards leads to people making various claims of “fact”. Often the “fact” is challenged, and a cite or a source is requested. This is good to a point, but what happens when there are different claims of truth for the same “fact”?...

You see that?

> [@What makes a good cite?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-makes-a-good-cite/6783/1):
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> The nature of these boards leads to people making various claims of “fact”. Often the “fact” is challenged, and a cite or a source is requested.

“A cite is requested”. It makes one cringe. All the more so when the writer of the vulgar phrase is trying to put them self forth as an authority, the bringer of truth, and their demands are from the pulpit, speaking down to their opponents.

Is as if a SC Judge demanded of a witness that he “compose himself in a manner deflitting[sic] of the court”, and didn’t blink and eye, much less notice the stares of every member of the proceeding. One’s authority is diminished when one is unaware of his own actions.

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