Hmm, thinking personally, my tweets are definitely more off the cuff and don’t live up to the same standard of rigor as my academic papers. I think this is reasonable, since that’s what people are expecting from tweets vs academic papers, so I expect the audience will update differently based on them. Also, it’s probably good for society/the marketplace of ideas for there to be different venues with different standards (eg., op-eds vs news articles; preprints vs peer-reviewed papers, etc). The case here seems potentially* somewhat similar (let’s say, hypothetically, that we’re 75% sure that Koch is acting in bad faith; I wouldn’t want CNN then saying that he’s probably acting in bad faith, but it seems reasonable for a piece in CA to do so).
*note I haven’t actually read the piece in question, but I think the general point stands
Hmm, thinking personally, my tweets are definitely more off the cuff and don’t live up to the same standard of rigor as my academic papers. I think this is reasonable, since that’s what people are expecting from tweets vs academic papers, so I expect the audience will update differently based on them. Also, it’s probably good for society/the marketplace of ideas for there to be different venues with different standards (eg., op-eds vs news articles; preprints vs peer-reviewed papers, etc). The case here seems potentially* somewhat similar (let’s say, hypothetically, that we’re 75% sure that Koch is acting in bad faith; I wouldn’t want CNN then saying that he’s probably acting in bad faith, but it seems reasonable for a piece in CA to do so).
*note I haven’t actually read the piece in question, but I think the general point stands