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He zoomed in on the one wrong thing he could find Not necessarily: the key to getting a letter to the editor published is to make a single coherent point, and
by neilc 17y ago
He zoomed in on the one wrong thing he could find
Not necessarily: the key to getting a letter to the editor published is to make a single coherent point, and to express yourself well. A letter to the editor is not the right venue for a point-by-point refutation of someone else's work.
- MikeCapone 17y agoI agree, but he did have options. Why didn't he do it on his blog, then? Or say at the end of a letter: For a more complete response to pinker, see [URL]. We can conclude that he either had lots of other good arguments but chose to focus on that minor one, or that he didn't have good rebuttals for the other things.