Not in a good (curious, friendly) way :)

To be fair, I think you have a point about people latching on to eastern "woo" but that (your stance) comes across as victim-blaming (=not as heroic OR as fresh as you might imagine it to be)..

Not sure you intended such a interpretation, but I suspect you might also blame us for that :)

I haven't seen any interesting solutions to the uh "skepticism vs openness" dilemma, you haven't pointed to any either, but maybe trying to understand what the relative value of different approaches are may help

By different "approaches" I mean, in the current context, fresh ways of distilling the non-wooness in non-western uh data

I see, the problem was in assuming that I want to present myself as an original thinker.

I'll keep my longstanding tradition of explaining exactly how I work: I have no interest in competing for an audience of hot takes on things. _Skepticism is old_, I dusted it from an old shelf. Of course it's not fresh.

So, I can attribute all the harshness that came across from me to your provokations. That's very generous. I didn't needed it though, and I don't accept gifts from strangers.