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"Nope. Not a nice try.
Shooting the messenger, poisoning the well, whatever label you want to give it - it's always a fallacy."

That is silly.

According to your logic, the National Enquirer is just as valid of a source as the Washington Post because they once broke the Gary Hart news decades ago.

We don't need to waste all of our time debunking stupid stories about Elvis pumping gas in Michigan, Bigfoot walking around in rural Washington, and aliens impregnating a woman because we know that the reliability of the source matters.

Sources that are known to be unreliable have to jump through extra hoops before a rational person pays attention to them.

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