More from @MForstater on misleading trade statistics. Disappointing the authors won't engage. Will @ElizaTalks? https://hiyamaya.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/what-is-wrong-with-honest-accounts/ …
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Replying to @DanNeidle @MForstater
Nope. My piece is wider than this issue & can't be drawn into debate about your particular bugbear. Out of interest, have read Maya's blog
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Replying to @ElizaTalks @MForstater
Sure, it's wider - but aren't you concerned you cited a source that - if Maya is even half right - is simply wrong?
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Replying to @DanNeidle @MForstater
From what I can tell, there's much debate about these figures. If stats are even half right point & implications for aid remains the same
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Replying to @ElizaTalks @MForstater
The debate is sadly one-sided and marked by a lack of engagement.
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Replying to @DanNeidle @MForstater
Shame. Understand motive to prove these figures right. What I don't get is enthusiasm to prove them wrong - if they point to a broken system
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How about because a bunch of people with decades of collective tax experience think that you and others are chasing imaginary numbers down
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Great. I'm happy you all feel so passionately about this. You've hijacked both my article and my twitter feed. Hence why ppl don't engage
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Four researchers/advisers exchanging twelve tweets on a subject you wrote about is a hijacking? Um, okay.
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I've ended up having a convo I expressly said I didn't want to have = hijacking. Plus love use of "adviser" as though in some way neutral
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Eliza -u wrote an opinion piece in a national newspaper accusing companies investing in Africa of undertaking massive fraud (& implicitly 1/
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Replying to @MForstater @ElizaTalks and
that African customs officials are corrupt & complicit in this theft). Thats not a small claim. U shrug it off saying u are not an expert 2/
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Replying to @MForstater @ElizaTalks and
Anyway, at least u engaged, which
@markcurtis30 &@nickdearden75 have been unwilling to. Its disappointing
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