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They're not invalid, but lacking backing data they may have a high probability of being wrong.



This article is just one guys opinion. Why does it need backing data? He's not making policy recommendations.


Opinions can also be wrong, depending on what they're about. As far as I can tell from the article, this is not one of those cases. He is simply relaying a story about one supposed advantage of the radio communication dark ages. But if you go from there to "Things (universal qualifier) were better before cell phones," then you have a problem. That often does happen in articles like this, although not this one.




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