Shaming people for getting it wrong and then quietly changing their positions is not a great idea. People who happened to get it right — great. You might be the one caught wrong-footed with the next update. Give people room to easily and quickly update positions as facts change.
I've been thinking about this thread a lot. Don't opinions need a bit more epistemic modesty to be forgivable? Stuff like this suggests to me a cavalier approach to journalism far more complex than just misinformed-priors: https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1243071090303414272 …