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When two unreliable witnesses agree, and suddenly nobody questions why.
means Independent evidence or testimony that confirms and supports a claim, making it more credible.
from From Latin corroborare, 'to strengthen' — built from the intensive prefix com- and robur, 'oak' or 'strength' (the same root that gives us 'robust'). To corroborate something is, literally, to make it oaken — to add timber to a claim so it can bear weight.
- legal weight
- courts love it more than the truth itself
- etymology
- latin for strengthen together, literally team effort
- dark side
- groupthink is just corroboration with worse judgment
- science use
- one experiment is a claim, three is a fact