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Re:What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore by pjc50 on Friday January 31, 2020 @07:55AM (#22201235)
> historic impact on a cohort of people who got less because of this remains unacknowledged and uncorrected.

On whom? It's a paper about the sociology of spiders, it's not a Reinhart-Rogoff scale disaster.

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Re:What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore by warlog on Friday January 31, 2020 @12:04PM (#22203261)
If your criticism of this position is "who cares, it's just spiders" then you're essentially saying it's not a big deal because it doesn't involve something you give a shit about, never mind that it's the principle -- not the subject matter -- that is being argued here.

What's the name of this logical fallacy. Ad idiotim?

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