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I get it, attack the person, not what he's saying.

• cgranade 16y ago
  Actually, you'll find that we're doing both. It is perfectly valid to point out conflicts of interest (it's a favored denialist tactic to invent CoIs that don't even exist, so isn't it hypocritical to take umbrage when CoIs are brought up?), so long as the actual claims are also addressed. This is like the difference between making your argument rest upon an ad hominem and making a wonderful argument followed by "oh, and you're an idiot." You don't get to reject the mountains of well-understood science just because one guy dared raise questions about conflicts of interest.