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You are blithely jumping back and forth between government and the peer review process/academic process. So let me put it to you like this: please show me a dem

You are blithely jumping back and forth between government and the peer review process/academic process. So let me put it to you like this: please show me a democratic country with an anonymous judiciary. EDIT: actually the US has the FISA courts which are effectively secret courts and those are widely understood to be a great harm and totalitarian (rather than democratic). > Your (incorrect) perception of an overwhelming consensus probably Did you know that the word consensus does not include the word unanimous? Just like there is a consensus on climate change despite some exceptional crank scientists there is a consensus on democratic processes being open - again i will emphasize that i never claimed there was consensus about whether peer review should be open but about whether government should be (and my own claims about peer review are informed by that consensus). > Not a 'bro'; One of my favorite things is when someone is either so pretentious or so clueless as to reject a (gender neutral) colloquialism.

wizzwizz4 3y ago
> Did you know that the word consensus does not include the word unanimous? Yes. Did you remember that you wrote this? > oh but it is and you'd have to be as obtuse as my reviewers to argue differently. like bro there isn't a scholar/thinker/activist on this subject anywhere in the world that agrees with you (politicians definitely agreew with you though). If you would like to share the reasons for your opinion about academic peer review, feel free. > One of my favorite things is when someone is either so pretentious or so clueless as to reject a (gender neutral) colloquialism. Huh, so it is. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48576 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48576 Mark me down for 'clueless'. I'd seen that with “girlie” and “guy” (perhaps coincidentally, both of which match historical uses of the words), but not “bro”. It's not listed in Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bro#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bro#English), but it looks WT:ATTEST-able: do you have a definition that could go there?

wizzwizz4 3y ago

> Did you know that the word consensus does not include the word unanimous? Yes. Did you remember that you wrote this? > oh but it is and you'd have to be as obtuse as my reviewers to argue differently. like bro there isn't a scholar/thinker/activist on this subject anywhere in the world that agrees with you (politicians definitely agreew with you though). If you would like to share the reasons for your opinion about academic peer review, feel free. > One of my favorite things is when someone is either so pretentious or so clueless as to reject a (gender neutral) colloquialism. Huh, so it is. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48576 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48576 Mark me down for 'clueless'. I'd seen that with “girlie” and “guy” (perhaps coincidentally, both of which match historical uses of the words), but not “bro”. It's not listed in Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bro#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bro#English), but it looks WT:ATTEST-able: do you have a definition that could go there?