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> rather than this persona of … This belongs to tone policing, a subcategory of ad hominem.

• nocoiner 2y ago
  How could I have better expressed myself? My impression of his post was that he was presenting himself as a naif in the woods, discovering through pure industriousness unknown truths about plastics. Whereas if you take him at his word expressed elsewhere, he appears to be one of the foremost plastics experts in the world. It strikes me as extremely disingenuous to downplay that expertise for messages intended for consumption by the general public.