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A form of cognitive and rhetorical bias where any discussion is treated as a courtroom trial, with one side arbitrarily assigned the burden of proof and held to impossibly high evidentiary standards while the other side merely issues demands. The biased participant acts as judge and prosecutor, constantly moving the goalposts (“prove it,” “that’s not proof,” “source?”) while never offering any evidence for their own position. Trial bias transforms dialogue into an adversarial interrogation where the target is presumed guilty until they meet an unmeetable standard.
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