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The problem with Sabine Hossenfelder's dismissing way of reporting is that it makes an impression that she does not faithfully represent the position of the oth
by zajio1am 4y ago
The problem with Sabine Hossenfelder's dismissing way of reporting is that it makes an impression that she does not faithfully represent the position of the other side.
- sho_hn 4y agoAre you implying it does, and that impression is false? I'm not sure how to read you.
- zajio1am 4y agoI do not know. I just say that if one demeans their opponents in such way, then it makes those statements less trustworthy (it increases estimation of being a strawman). That is obviously a heuristic - in principle one can make demeaning but fair argument, and also tone-correct but strawmanny argument.
- marcosdumay 4y agoThat's a great heuristic to give the point to anybody that holds indefensable positions. I recommend people to be much more interested on whether she is actually right or not, instead of whether the views that she opposes are simply bad. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that very few people actually hold all of those bad ideas as true (I'm met more than one, so they exist). But the normalized speech of the area surely did, and for quite a long time (I believe it's changing). And that's what reaches students and news, not the detailed opinion of individuals.