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We proceed to a CDT for an attempt by Theranos to acquit itself
(Fig. 11.3C):
It is not unusual for disgruntled and terminated employees in the heavily regulated
health care industry to file complaints in an effort to retaliate against employers for
termination of employment. Regulatory agencies have a process for evaluating
complaints, many of which are not substantiated. Theranos trusts its regulators
to properly investigate any complaints.
In another example, the objective of the author is to attack a claim that the
Syrian government used chemical weapon in the spring of 2018. An accept-
able proof would be to share a certain observation, associated from the stand-
point of peers, with the absence of a chemical attack. For example, if it is
possible to demonstrate that the time of the alleged chemical attack coin-
cided with the time of a very strong rainfall that would be a convincing
way to attack this claim. However, since no such observation was identified
the source, Russia Today (2018), resorted to plotting a complex mental states
concerning how the claim was communicated, where it is hard to verify
most statements about the mental states of the involved parties. We show
the text split into EDU as done by discourse parser ( Joty, Carenini, Ng,
& Mehdad, 2013):

[Whatever the Douma residents,][who had first-hand experience of the
shooting of the water][dousing after chemical attack video,][have to say,]
[their words simply do not fit into the narrative][allowed in the West,]
[analysts told RT.] [Footage of screaming bewildered civilians and
children][being doused with water,][presumably to decontaminate them,]
[was a key part in convincing Western audiences][that a chemical attack
happened in Douma.] [Russia brought the people][seen in the video][to
Brussels,][where they told anyone][interested in listening][that the scene
was staged.] [Their testimonies, however, were swiftly branded as bizarre
and underwhelming and even an obscene masquerade][staged by
Russians.] [They refuse to see this as evidence,][obviously pending][what
the OPCW < Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons >
team is going to come up with in Douma ], [Middle East expert Ammar
Waqqaf said in an interview with RT.] [The alleged chemical incident,]
[without any investigation, has already become a solid fact in the West,]
[which the US, Britain and France based their retaliatory strike on.]

This article (RussiaToday, 2018) has not found counter-evidence for the
claim of the chemical attack it attempts to defeat, instead it says that the
opponents are not interested in observing this counter-evidence. The main