I don’t know man, have you considered there’s a whole evidence-based handbook on preventing backfire effects? https://skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf …
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Or maybe, just maybe, the people linking science of scicomm had heard of literally the most basic goddamn problem with countering disinfo? Ya think?
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Here’s a big insight for Dr. Prasad. Did you know that sometimes people slice and dice their data looking for subgroups that have statistically-significant associations that may be spurious? Have you ever thought of that? I think I’ll name my discovery “subgroup analysis.”

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What we have seen here, sadly, is Prasad has Dunning-Krugered himself. He entered this week assuming he knew everything about countering disinfo, and instead of responding thoughtfully to evidence, has just doubled down on ignorance - classic confidence in incompetence.
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“why debunk that garbage when you should be debunking this garbage?”
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Ah yes, the highest of intellectual responses, concern trolling.
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What should you do in response? Find a new (dead) horse to flog?
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Or ...... Open every tweet with "Gorski is better than Prasad (
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