My goto response when someone says “I have nothing to hide” is to ask them to hand me their phone unlocked so that I can go through their messages, pictures and financial stuff.

This usually does the trick of reminding them that you do have things to hide.

I don’t see how that’s relevant here.

I mean, people do predict things based on evidence. Galileo didn’t actually go to outer space and verify that the earth was going around the sun.