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In claiming that his sister was abducted by aliens, he carries a much greater burden of proof, because we normally consider alien-abduction stories as incredible; as a result, it is up to Mulder to produce proof of his claim.
The fallacy occurs whenever someone shifts the burden of proof to avoid the difficulty of substantiating a claim which would be very difficult to support.
Instead, the prosecutor is attempting to shift the burden of proof here, suggesting that the defendant must prove her innocence or be found guilty.
In an initial estimate of factors responsible for the global burden of disease, tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs contributed together 12.4% of all deaths worldwide in the year 2000.
Also the share of the burden for the different substances varies, tobacco is the largest burden in Europe and South-East Asia while alcohol poses the largest burden in Africa, the Americas, and Western Pacific.
The burden from psychoactive substance use is higher in the developed countries than especially in the high mortality developing countries.
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