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Fuck me I had a very tl;dr intelligent reply all typed up for this and I lost it but to summarise (rather gruffly) what I wanted to say:
 Originally Posted by wufwugy
Same as it is with everything, but it's misleading to suggest that we have reason to be skeptical of all things.
No it's not. It is misleading to suggest that it is efficient to be sceptical of all things.
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Also, it's not so cut and dry; afterall, one contrary observation doesn't necessarily negate a law or theory
Yes it does, assuming that the contrary observation can be taken as true. Of course this leads us to a paradox.
Originally Posted by wufwugy
That's kinda like saying, after flipping a coin which lands heads up, "it's not that it landed heads up, but that it didn't land tails up".
No it's very different.
With all that said I totally agree with you that this is most likely a hoax or a misunderstanding and that the conservation of energy theory will likely never be negated.
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