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Charles Arthur's avatar

“they seem to duck many of the bigger scientific controversies and public policy questions that dominate the discourse today (I’ll give you exactly one guess which one I’m alluding to).”

This is a very clever form of words to provoke the reader’s confirmation bias into thinking you agree with them that [X which they think is what sceptics should not be ducking is what you were thinking]. Well done indeed.

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Ben Kelly's avatar

In the spirit of being the asshole in the room, please can you stop using footnotes so much in your posts? They make reading an absolute nightmare because I have to either 1) scroll down to the footnotes, then try to find my way back to where I was; or 2) skip them, read them at the end of the post, and try to remember what the context was for each one.

I recognise that on PC you can hover to see the footnote, but you don't get this functionality on the email (perhaps I'm the weird one for only reading substacks through email - but its supposed to be a newsletter site...)

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