I thought the second part of this comment was particularly insightful. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vZcXAc6txvJDanQ4F/the-median-researcher-problem-1?comment

I thought the second part of this comment was particularly insightful. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vZcXAc6txvJDanQ4F/the-median-researcher-problem-1?commentId=gnrtL46dsp4mEmRSH https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vZcXAc6txvJDanQ4F/the-median... It's pretty easy to punch down when you're writing a lot of loosely connected blog posts that don't require real evidence or falsifiable claims, and certainly nobody will ever go back to check.