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If you don't want to cite your sources, that's fine. However, without a proper citation there is no way to verify the credentials which you have claimed for the
by nybble41 9y ago
If you don't want to cite your sources, that's fine. However, without a proper citation there is no way to verify the credentials which you have claimed for them or the accuracy of your summary of their position. Your claims that they were "very highly qualified and experienced economists" and "post-doctoral researchers" who "subsequently worked for several years in major City companies you've heard of, both reaching senior positions unusually quickly" are at best an irrelevant distraction, and could be considered an attempt to lend unsubstantiated authority to your own position.
- Silhouette 9y agoPlease concentrate on the arguments. I deliberately mentioned only brief details about them originally precisely to avoid this sort of distraction, and I see no value in continuing down this path. If people want to assume that rather than simply relaying a brief personal anecdote that was relevant to the conversation I was instead making up a whole back story behind fictitious people just to make my own position look more authoritative, that's up to them but I doubt anything interesting or productive will come of it.