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Originally Posted by GeoPoto
If I read 272 posts, am I going to be convinced that these cards are real or fake?
Reader's Digest Version: Brian asserts that the cards are fake, because someone long ago told him they were fake. Brian believes the person was in a position to know and had no obvious reason to lie about it.
Meanwhile, numerous hobby stalwarts have analyzed the cards and concluded that they are real, including PSA. As such the preponderance of people (including myself) have concluded that the probability is very high that they are real, and Brian's account is flawed in some unknowable way.
Despite the over-heated use of phrases like "lock-solid proof", "conclusively proven real", and ". . . that fact (that Brian is wrong)", there will never be complete certainty because there is no practical way to definitively prove the cards are real. Expert opinion is occasionally wrong.
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Your overall point stands, but I have a minor quibble. The issue is not the "Brian's account is flawed in some unknowable way." The issue is that, even accepting everything he claims as 100% true, his conclusion that the cards are fake is built on several logical fallacies.
Even if everyone could agree that nothing is truly certain, the anecdotal evidence that these are fake is laughably weak. It reminded me of Thanksgiving this year, when my dad quoted the My Pillow guy as gospel and assured me that all the evidence I needed was that the My Pillow guy knows his stuff.