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  Don’t mistake an assumption for a fact Posted on   November 7, 2016   by   Fallacy Man I want you to imagine for a minute that you have been selected for jury duty, and you are sitting in the courtroom listening to the evidence. As you watch, the prosecution calls an expert forensic scientist to the stand, and they carefully explain the facts concerning the forensic evidence, all of which point towards the defendant’s guilt. Then, the defendant’s lawyer stands up and shouts, “Objection, this witness has been paid off to lie about my client!” After a moment of shocked silence, the judge says, “That is quite a claim. What evidence do you have to support it?” The lawyer then responds simply by saying, “only someone who had been bought off would say things like that against my client.” Now, what do you think is going to happen next? Is that a reasonable defense that the judge will accept? Obviously not! The defense is making an extraordinary assumption, and it is clearly invalid to do so

  ❗️Until now, it was not known who exactly was aiming missiles at civilian objects in Ukraine But journalists from The Insider, Bellingcat and Der Spiegeleisen were able to uncover a secret unit within the Main Computing Center (MCC) of the Russian Armed Forces and its employees that determine flight missions for precision-guided missiles. Detailing the calls of 30 military engineers working in the Main Computer Center, compared with shelling, confirms their involvement in the murder of civilians in Ukraine, according to a joint investigation by journalists. It turned out that three teams of employees of the Main Computer Center are responsible for missile guidance, each of which programs the flight trajectories of one specific type of high-precision missiles: ZM-14 (“Caliber”, sea-based), 9M728 (aka R-500, operational-tactical missile systems " Iskander "(ground-based)) and Kh-101 (air-based). When the journalists began to contact the gunmen using the phones from the billin