No. It wasn't an oversight. It's one of those broad challenges that would require an entire book to answer properly. Just to recap, this is what you demanded of me:
See, if I gave you an example, you would say this one example isn't applicable to holocaust scholars because the person isn't a holocaust scholar. Or you'd demand that I prove that this person applies this one standard to everything except the holocaust and the other standard only to the holocaust as opposed to applying the holocaust standard to the holocaust and, e.g., the French Revolution but applying the other standard to every other historical event. Or you'll want me to prove that the person doesn't have a different standard for EVERY historical event. Or you'd demand that I prove, not that all of the people apply the holocaust standard to the holocaust some of the time or that some of the people apply the holocaust standard to the holocaust all of the time but that all the people apply the holocaust standard to the holocaust all of the time. Or you'll say the example is irrelevant because the person is talking about science and you asked about mass murder. And then Dr. Terry will chime in about how Dogzilla proves that cross breeding prehistoric reptiles awakened by atomic explosions with modern canines results in a human who is utterly incapable of understanding the word "standard" in the context of modern historical epistomology. Yada yada yada.
So I just ignored you.
But since I'm kind of bored, here's an example of how Michael Shermer applies one standard when we're talking about the holocaust but dismisses it when we're talking about the Jews escape from Egypt in Exodus.
I'm sure we've all seen the Phil Donohue show from IIRC 1994 featuring Bradley Smith and David Cole talking about holocaust denial with Michael Shermer, a bad actress playing a holocaust survivor, the survivor's whacky sister, a hostile studio audience, and a "German" lady on the phone who single handedly proves that people will believe anything when it comes to the holocaust. If you haven't seen the whole show, you really should check it out. It's available broken up into four, five, sometimes six segments on YouTube. I'm using
this segment for my example.
In this segment, between 6:30 and 6:50, Michael Shermer tells us that David Cole has asked some good questions that should have answers but that not having answers needs to be put in perspective because "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
OK, so, with the holocaust, just because we don't have any evidence something happened is no reason to believe it didn't. Fine.
I'm sure everybody here has also seen Penn and Teller's BS, the Showtime series in which the two magicians debunk various sacred cows with wit, intelligence, sarcasm, hilarity, and at least one set of naked female breasts per episode. In the
sixth episode of the second season, Penn and Teller are demolishing The Bible as a historical source. On one side we some professor of history defending the Bible and on the other side we have Michael Shermer debunking the Bible. Between 14:58 and 15:13, Michael Shermer and Penn Gillette are telling us how the story about the Jews enslavement in Egypt and escape through the Red Sea has no factual basis outside of the Bible. They cut to the old professor guy reminding us that "absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence." Then they cut to Michael Shermer telling us that that is not acceptable.
Sounds like one standard of evidence is OK with the holocaust but not with the not holocaust to me.