Candace and TuCa
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That's a rhetorical trick they pull. It should have a name. Posture as if it's a given that you have credibility, then put that credibility on the line for a question that you can always claim some truth about without engaging with any honest pushback. I've heard Bret Weinstein pull the same trick, putting his credibility as a biologist on the line, over some question about the COVID vaccine. He openly challenged the world to rebut him, and some other biologists did so, and he never responded, last I checked.
