Hektor wrote:What Holocaust proponents do is to invert the burden of proof. They first insist that the Holocaust and its key claims are "recorded History" agreed upon by "all serious historians" and demand that Holocaust Revisionists have to prove that there were no gas chambers.
Indeed, they do love to invert the burden of proof. The reason typically used to justify it:
The "experts" have come to a unanimous agreement, so the burden of proof is on you to explain how they're wrong
This would be partly-valid in particular instances, but in the present situation it is not. That is because the supposed "consensus" is artificial since it is a legal requirement. In this respect, I have even seen people use the argument that court cases have taken "Judicial notice" of gassings as evidence that they occurred
What they prefer to do is invert the hierarchy of evidence. I explain this in my (rather long) post here at the bottom:
viewtopic.php?p=95570#p95570I have recently had the misfortune of "debating" a person whose strategy is just to cite "experts" making hard claims without supporting data, and then to complain if I don't accept everything their cherry-picked experts claim. The discussion isn't related to the big H but it nevertheless does show how some/many/most people think: whatever the perceived authority says, that must be true unless somehow you find a more "official" expert to say otherwise. The details or the science doesn't really matter.