Re:The Plastics Paradox
by barfbagginus on Monday April 29, 2024 @04:55AM
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I've read all these papers, bro. So hire me as your plastics management consultant bro. The plastics you'll make will be just as harmful as the next guys. But you'll have evidence based harm reduction expert on your payroll. So you can CYA next time you have a PR SNAFU. And that means a WHOLE LOT!
Re:The Plastics Paradox
by DatoClement on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @08:59AM
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> rather than this persona of …
This belongs to tone policing, a subcategory of ad hominem.
How could I have better expressed myself? My impression of his post was that he was presenting himself as a naif in the woods, discovering through pure industriousness unknown truths about plastics. Whereas if you take him at his word expressed elsewhere, he appears to be one of the foremost plastics experts in the world.
It strikes me as extremely disingenuous to downplay that expertise for messages intended for consumption by the general public.
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Truthfully, I think plastics are a pretty remarkable product, but I think these arguments would have been a lot more compelling if it had been framed in that way — rather than this (frankly unbelievable) persona of, “I’m just a simple man who loves science and reading papers and here are these incredible findings in which I have no vested interest in whatsoever.”