ierolastic

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   by ierolastic 9y ago

   I'm not sure if this is where you were going with this, but I think this is a subtle attempt of the author to discredit or impugn the target of the article. They could have used the term "libertarian" or "protester"
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   by ierolastic 9y ago

   So many things about that are depressing, like, why would someone cut into a tree like that, and why would they decide that, if one of the trunks is gone, the whole thing needs to be decimated? Both are completely absurd.
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   by ierolastic 9y ago

   That's what the original paper is kind of about. The Scientific American piece is a little misleading to me, because it implies the paper is about lack of evidence, when I think the original paper is a bit deeper than that, and about d