Tag Archives: ad hominem
Questions we should be asking more often
1. Okay, but where’s the money coming from? In a lecture at the Asian College of Journalism, where I was in the audience as a student, P. Sainath told us that if we needed one rule following which we’d be … Continue reading →
Posted in Analysis
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Tagged ad hominem, doctored visuals, fake news, follow the money, law of inevitability, law of large numbers, law of near enough, law of selection, law of the probability lever, novel coronavirus, Occam's razor, P Sainath
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Science journalism, expertise and common sense
On March 27, the Johns Hopkins University said an article published on the website of the Centre For Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), a Washington-based think tank, had used its logo without permission and distanced itself from the study, … Continue reading →
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm, Science
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Tagged ad hominem, authoritarianism, CDDEP, cherry-picking, common sense, complexity, coronavirus, COVID-19, epistemology, expertise, knowledge is power, novel coronavirus, Ramanan Laxminarayan, science journalism, Times of India
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Fortitude
What’s the point of sweating to compose a good argument when the reader doesn’t exist who will rebut it instead of nosing around to figure out who penned it and going after them instead? This is a question worth asking … Continue reading →