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Why is it that you assume that a PhD or community support makes someone right? And surely he gets his paycheck from someone just as Y does, right?
by travisoneill1 7y ago
Why is it that you assume that a PhD or community support makes someone right? And surely he gets his paycheck from someone just as Y does, right?
- jfengel 7y agoIt doesn't, in itself. But when a PhD with very widespread support disagrees with somebody so lacking in the relevant discipline that they keep making the same elementary mistakes over and over in support of a preconceived notion, it's a really strong sign that they're not really talking on an equal footing. It's not always easy to rule out outsider with novel ideas, but there are lists of warning signs of crankery and motivated reasoning that a journalist should be able to identify. There will always be a gray area, but that's no excuse for lazy journalists to repeatedly seek out anybody willing to disagree just for the purpose of presenting an equal-and-opposite story.