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In the edition of the Valencia's daily El Pais 25/06/2009 day is an article entitled: Faith is 'come' to child Workers rebel against integration in the pediatric ward of Malilla macrohospital http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Comunidad/Valenciana/Fe/come/infantil/elp... 13/Tes In it, Dr. managerMelchor Hoyos, who maintains that "there is no evidence that hospitals are case better than integrated" are using a genuine example of a type of "fallacy" (reasoning apparently "logical" in which the outcome is independent of the truth ( http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falacia): the "argumentum ad ignorantiam" which is a logical fallacy consists of asserting the truth of a proposition only because it has proven its falsity, or assert its falsity by have not been proven as true. That is, telling the truth or falsity of a premise based on the alleged ignorance existing on it. In the present case, the formulation would be: 1. It says A 2. There is no evidence to assert A, 3. Therefore, A is false. Which is evidence of the lack of arguments to defend what they claim to do "because I can not prove that what we have done is the right thing, at least say that there is no evidence that the alternative proposed by the other is the best. " There is little point have been argued over and over again the very serious structural and organizational shortcomings, which has not a single precedent in the world that a community of 5 million people remain without its Children's Hospital, which for all countries developed pediatric hospitals are the norm and continue to be built and developed as the best alternative for the care and promotion of child health, that almost all the staff at Children's Hospital was expressed in radical disagreement with the planning (or better, with the NO SCHEDULING) of pediatric care in the new hospital, which many societiesgroups and institutions have spoken out against ... Everyone is wrong except us: "showing them" (does not that sound to Unamuno "invent them )