I said 'You won't be believed until someone visits them' and so I was given permission.
Jandek did not perform in public, it is believed, until 2004, when he appeared at a festival in Glasgow.
I responded: "Any politician who makes a private call to an editor has a right to be believed until he is proved a liar".
All Clinton offered in response was: "Well, I would say that everybody should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence". That second part — that women should be believed "until they are disbelieved based on evidence" — was not mentioned in her tweet.
The rationale for the traditional practice is that the findings cannot really be believed until the paper has been scrutinized by disinterested experts who advise the journal on whether the results of a study appear reliable and worthy of publication.
Every outlandish rumour is endlessly discussed, the grainiest sand-blown pictures pored over, but nothing is believed until someone can dash upstairs to Big Boss's office, where he has BBC News 24 on.
In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body's immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until now to be impossible.
But Armstrong deserves to be believed until proven otherwise.
A deep knowledge of all things geek was viewed as relatively useless, at least, if early '80s films were to be believed, until a catastrophic event occurred, one that required the mastery of a video game controller — an event that showed us that video gamers were special people after all.
The repressive, anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids were believed until recently to be based mainly on transrepression [ 19], whereas the negative effects - with the exception of infection risk - and metabolic actions of glucocorticoid therapy were based on transactivation.
