It would be helpful if you engaged with the plagiarism claims, because it is concerning that CE is running researcher training programs while failing to handle that well. I agree with the rest of what you say here as being tricky, but think that it is pretty bad that you publish the low confidence research publicly, and it’s led to confusion in the animal space.
+ 2.5 - I think if your ordering is significantly different, it’s probably fairly different than most people in the space, so that’s somewhat surprising/an indicator that lots of feedback isn’t reaching you all.
To be clear, I am certain that CE staff have not been invited to events in the animal welfare space due to impressions of your organization being unwilling to be cooperative.
My main view is that animal donors should seriously engage in a vetting process prior to taking large amounts of guidance on donations from CE / shouldn’t update on your research in meaningful ways. I still think CE is probably the best bet in the animal space for future new very high impact organizations in the space as well though, so it’s a tricky balance to critique CE. I’d bet that a fair number of the best giving opportunities in the animal space in 5 years will have come out of CE, but that it’ll also have come with a large amount of generally avoidable wastes of funding and talent.
It would be helpful if you engaged with the plagiarism claims, because it is concerning that CE is running researcher training programs while failing to handle that well. I agree with the rest of what you say here as being tricky, but think that it is pretty bad that you publish the low confidence research publicly, and it’s led to confusion in the animal space.
+ 2.5 - I think if your ordering is significantly different, it’s probably fairly different than most people in the space, so that’s somewhat surprising/an indicator that lots of feedback isn’t reaching you all.
To be clear, I am certain that CE staff have not been invited to events in the animal welfare space due to impressions of your organization being unwilling to be cooperative.
My main view is that animal donors should seriously engage in a vetting process prior to taking large amounts of guidance on donations from CE / shouldn’t update on your research in meaningful ways. I still think CE is probably the best bet in the animal space for future new very high impact organizations in the space as well though, so it’s a tricky balance to critique CE. I’d bet that a fair number of the best giving opportunities in the animal space in 5 years will have come out of CE, but that it’ll also have come with a large amount of generally avoidable wastes of funding and talent.