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xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible

Title text:

'If you've eliminated a few possibilities and you can't think of any others, your weird theory is proven right' isn't quite as rhetorically compelling.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3210/

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Very tiny grain - I feel like Doyle was a bit of a dreamer who was easily misled by confident adults and even children