Commenters are fine to object, but to the extent they rely on the question of whether the science is actually discredited or not, I think they should link to an existing discussion of it rather than duplicating it here. The duplication just damages all of:
the discussion of the issue here, to the extent it misses things that previous discussions have covered,
the discussions that we’d otherwise have linked to, to the extent that people spend effort improving this one rather than that one,
any other discussion here, which becomes more difficult to navigate for being mixed in with it.
I’m not trying to prevent discussion, I’m just trying to move and consolidate it.
(But in practice it hasn’t been as dominating here as I’d feared, so I’m not going to bang too hard on this drum.)
I would also prefer a world that adds to the previous discussion instead of reinventing the wheel here, but in practice I don’t think people would pay as much attention if we merely linked to that thread. To me the case for how much the fallout from the apology matters rests on how justified the fallout is, so I believe the merits of the case against the apology deserve the space they are getting in this thread. Thanks for clarifying more what you meant.
Commenters are fine to object, but to the extent they rely on the question of whether the science is actually discredited or not, I think they should link to an existing discussion of it rather than duplicating it here. The duplication just damages all of:
the discussion of the issue here, to the extent it misses things that previous discussions have covered,
the discussions that we’d otherwise have linked to, to the extent that people spend effort improving this one rather than that one,
any other discussion here, which becomes more difficult to navigate for being mixed in with it.
I’m not trying to prevent discussion, I’m just trying to move and consolidate it.
(But in practice it hasn’t been as dominating here as I’d feared, so I’m not going to bang too hard on this drum.)
I would also prefer a world that adds to the previous discussion instead of reinventing the wheel here, but in practice I don’t think people would pay as much attention if we merely linked to that thread. To me the case for how much the fallout from the apology matters rests on how justified the fallout is, so I believe the merits of the case against the apology deserve the space they are getting in this thread. Thanks for clarifying more what you meant.