a) the thesis of the whole post, which is that CEA’s approach hasn’t been a good idea in retrospect;
b) the claim that CEA have previously used their influence on funding to enforce their policy, which I didn’t argue for and can’t publicly discuss, but stand by;
c) the approach of the post, which is to assume that linking to the case for the policy’s upsides was sufficient—and focus on the undiscussed downsides; and
d) the synopsis of that particular event, which wasn’t meant to imply that we did anything other than follow the advice of our own free will—I’ve edited it again to make that as clear as I can.
You can say I wrote the post badly—I only had a couple of days to spare on it—or that such a downside-focused approach was never a good idea (though since I don’t have anywhere near the time or resources to do the empirical research I’m advocating, that would amount to saying I just shouldn’t have criticised CEA’s media policy).
But no, I’m not going to ‘agree to disagree’ that I intentionally said anything misleading.
You’re throwing together -
a) the thesis of the whole post, which is that CEA’s approach hasn’t been a good idea in retrospect;
b) the claim that CEA have previously used their influence on funding to enforce their policy, which I didn’t argue for and can’t publicly discuss, but stand by;
c) the approach of the post, which is to assume that linking to the case for the policy’s upsides was sufficient—and focus on the undiscussed downsides; and
d) the synopsis of that particular event, which wasn’t meant to imply that we did anything other than follow the advice of our own free will—I’ve edited it again to make that as clear as I can.
You can say I wrote the post badly—I only had a couple of days to spare on it—or that such a downside-focused approach was never a good idea (though since I don’t have anywhere near the time or resources to do the empirical research I’m advocating, that would amount to saying I just shouldn’t have criticised CEA’s media policy).
But no, I’m not going to ‘agree to disagree’ that I intentionally said anything misleading.