ClaimsTyler Cowen

“It does seem to me at this point that the UFO footage is not of the Russian military.”

Tyler Cowen, writing on X 25 February 2022 Post by @tylercowen on X, 2022-02-25 (X)

Factual Other

Tyler Cowen said it seemed to him at that point that the UFO footage was not of the Russian military.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

This claim is about Cowen's own stated view at the time. True: Cowen's statement of 2022-02-25 (a Marginal Revolution post or a tweet) says, as a tentative view, that the UFO footage did not appear to show Russian military craft. Mostly true: he expressed this view but with slightly different wording or scope. Mixed: the statement is ambiguous. Mostly false: he said something related but did not take this position. False: he said the footage might well be, or likely was, of the Russian military.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (1)

  1. E1 Who gains and loses status from the war in Ukraine? - Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen) · 30 March 2022 Own record

    “2b. Those who argued the UFO footage was possibly of a Russian military craft.”

Reasoning

The claim concerns what Cowen said on 2022-02-25, but the only evidence (E1) is a later Marginal Revolution post dated 2022-03-30. It lists 'Those who argued the UFO footage was possibly of a Russian military craft' as a status category. This is indirect and does not show the content, wording or tentative framing of any 2022-02-25 statement. The evidence does not settle the criteria.

Cite this claim

Tyler Cowen, “Tyler Cowen said it seemed to him at that point that the UFO footage was not of the Russian military.” (said 25 February 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_f61215f5751d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f61215f5751d

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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