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Re:How the pandemic is changing the norms of science by phreeza on Monday September 13, 2021 @03:56AM (#28508912)
Having an ad hominem alongside a different argument doesn't mean it's not an ad hominem in my book. Why not point out the errors without the additional ad hominem "explanation"?
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Re:How the pandemic is changing the norms of science by cblconfederate on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:41AM (#28509404)
You could -- but that's no reason to dismiss the whole paper. The linked tweet is using the ad hominem accusation to lie: the paper did address the flaws in their analysis - in fact he explains in detail why he thinks they were biased.

If you read the final paper (linked by bergstorm) it doesn't contain any of the excerpts that he screen-shotted. They probably existed in an early preprint of the paper, but they don't exist in the final paper! : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13554

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Re:How the pandemic is changing the norms of science by phreeza on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:04AM (#28520849)
Nowhere did I say the entire paper should be dismissed. Having an ad hominem is a smell though.
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