Citat:
Auktionisten Lennart Fredrikssons skämt om en moské i Borlänge gick enligt många över gränsen.
Klockrena sk. Weasel words. Används i journalistik för att försöka "bevisa" något som inte har någon faktisk grund.
Kod:
# "A growing body of evidence..."[4] (Where is the raw data for your review?)
# "People say..." (Which people? How do they know?)
# "Critics claim..." (Which critics?)
# "Clearly..." (As if the premise is undeniably true.)
# "Questions have been raised..." (Implies an fatal flaw has been discovered)
# "I heard that..." (Who told you? Is the source reliable?)
# "There is evidence that..." (What evidence? Is the source reliable?)
# "Experience shows that..." (Whose experience? What was the experience? How does it demonstrate this?)
# "It has been mentioned that..." (Who are these mentioners? Can they be trusted?)
# "Popular wisdom has it that..." (Is popular wisdom a test of truth?)
# "It is known that..." (By whom and by what method is it known?)
# "It turns out that..." (How does it turn out?)