<bq href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/15/intercepted-podcast-snowden-vs-trump/" source="The Intercept" caption="Intercepted Podcast: Snowden vs. Trump with Jeremy Scahill" author="Christopher Hitchens">That which can be presented without evidence, can be dismissed without consideration.<fn></bq> <hr> <ft>Known informally as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor" source="Wikipedia">Hitchens's razor</a>, it is actually an English translation of the Latin proverb "Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur" ("what is freely asserted is freely dismissed"), which was commonly used in the 19th century.</ft>