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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:20PM (#22798893)
I don't want to discredit him as a source.

I want him acknowledged as a source with a pre-determined axe to grind. He's smart, he's clever, he's sometimes right. But he's not J. Random "Economist from Somewhere University".

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Re:Coronavirus and Credibility by lliamander on Monday April 06, 2020 @07:37PM (#22799009)
OK. I acknowledge that he has a bias that stems from his anarcho-capitalism.

My point is stating that he was an economist at a respectable university was not to disguise his bias, but to emphasize that he wasn't just some random blogger, which was apparently a barrier for some people when it came to assessing his argument.

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