a_throwaway_6

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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
I don't know if you've listened to any of Wagner's music? Most of it is long stretches of impossibly delicate melodies, almost lullaby-like, but these are occasionally interrupted by sudden spasms of noise, great blaring horn
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
I do not care about splitting hairs. A person legitimately calling themselves a researcher would also not need to do so. They would simply point to their research, not to blog posts. Anyone can write a blog post and publish it on their blog
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
I could perhaps see a charitable interpretation if the author of the blog post (Guzey) did not accuse the author of the book (Walker) of "deliberate data manipulation", gave the opportunity to the target of the accusation to expla
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
"Researcher" isn't synonymous with "academic", but it's not synonymous with "blogger" either. Part of my point is that an actual researcher, i.e. a professional, would have followed due procedure, con
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
You don't see any problem with someone selectively quoting from what they claim is "UC Berkeley's official position", while not pointing to an actual source of that "official position" in UC Berkeley itself, or
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
What you link to is not "research" but "opinion" published in your blog. It identifies you as a "blogger", but not as a "researcher". At most I could see what you have written as "study" of
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
Unfortunately, I have no way to tell what is a "logical internal contradiction in the text", because I am not knowledgeable in the subject matter of the text and so cannot follow its internal logic. I disagree that a "researc
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
Also, since I have you here, can I please enquire as to what you mean when you say that you are a "researcher" in your about page?
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
What is listed in the post you link are exerpts of the email conversation, selected by Yngve Hoiseth. The link I mention is broken should lead to the entire, unredacted, unexcerpted email conversation, but fails to do so. This makes it im
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
It matters because I don't have the knowledge to verify the accusations and the fact that the person that makes accusations of academic fraud is misrepresenting himself as a "researcher" means that they are not a trustworthy
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by a_throwaway_6 5y ago
My first instinct when hearing of accusations of academic misconduct is to ask who is making those accusations: is it someone whose opinions I can trust? The author of the blog above has an About page where they introduce themselves as &quo