(Includes the recent outbreak of failing to post links, making claims to GENERAL links which don't apply to the specific point raised, dishonestly forgetting a 'source', claiming to have posted links on some other thread, claiming to have posted them several times already, making dishonest claims as fact then, occasionally, apologizing when challenged to completion, otherwise wrongful information - aka, Turkish propaganda - remain peddled on the Internet as 'factual')
- Here is Get Real!'s most useful contribution:
What constitutes “CREDIBLE EVIDENCE”?
CREDIBLE EVIDENCE is evidence acquired from an unbiased public domain source that is considered an internationally recognized authority on one or more areas pertaining to the issue at hand.
GOOD sources of evidence include:
1. The United Nations and its multitude of sub-organizations including UNFICYP.
2. International organizations such as the IMF (International monetary fund), WHO (World Health Organization), ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), IMO (International Maritime Organization), and similar.
3. Non-profit making world renowned organizations such as, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, the Human Rights Watch, etc.
4. Credible international libraries and other non-open source knowledge base sources such as the Library of Congress.
5. The many British documents made public; needless to remind that the British ruled Cyprus between 1878 and 1960, and were therefore in an excellent position to determine fact from fiction.
BAD sources of “evidence” include:
1. People’s family members, friends, and other acquaintances, all prone to bias and unable to have been in more than one location at any given moment thereby having a very limited scope of events.
2. Turkish adverts and propaganda.
3. Newspaper articles and independent authors that do not quote their credible sources of information when stating facts & figures.
4. Text that is NOT in English as it defeats the very purpose of general comprehension and any “translations” thereof that cannot be easily checked for its accuracy.
5. Open source online encyclopedias such as the Wikipedia, that allow any person to write up articles and present them as fact with next to zero scrutiny.
