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>"[...]Interestingly, while the London fog was highly acidic, contemporary Chinese haze is basically neutral,” he added. This kind of weasel-wording is a smirc
by dajohnson89 10y ago
>"[...]Interestingly, while the London fog was highly acidic, contemporary Chinese haze is basically neutral,” he added.
This kind of weasel-wording is a smirch upon science. It's either basic, or neutral.
- grzm 10y agoIs this missing a sarcasm tag or are you honestly arguing that he's being weaselly about pH?
- mikeash 10y agoI imagine they mean "basically" in the sense of "in the most essential respects; fundamentally" rather than "the opposite of acidic."
- Neeek 10y agoIt's ok buddy, I laughed.
- dajohnson89 10y agothank you (hugs)