Thanks for your thoughtful thread. As someone committed to transparent science and computational modelling, this issue is close to my lab's heart. I think the issues you raise are valid. Perhaps one take-away is that one size fits all PR isn't helpful here.
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I’d be curious to see some examples of that. Reconsidering views is good, ofc, but I’m curious because you linked to some tweets the other day arguing they said RR or bust when they explicitly said other work should be published too.
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We're all just hallucinating.

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Well, this was the tweet you took as a suggestion that only preregistered work should be published. It pretty clearly doesn’t say that, which is why I was curious what the other examples you’d seen said.https://twitter.com/robustgar/status/1043453476397834241?s=21 …
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Parse it for us.
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It's part of a series of things people have said with very extreme views. Otherwise why do you think
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I think you're under the impression that if we don't dedicate hours trawling through tweets to defend our opinion on this that we are by definition wrong. But I actually have a day job as do others and twitter is nasty to search. If you haven't felt the vibe, well, that's fine.
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Also I think you think if you follow me around every time I comment on this that you will exhaust me and I'll stop saying that the rhetoric recently flipped. Sealioning me over this is hilarious.
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IMHO that tweet (and thread) you linked me linked to is a great example.
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I've seen this transition happening back and forth since the beginning so I don't think much has changed.
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What do you mean "transition happening back and forth"? Having trouble parsing, sorry.
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I mean language switching between, Reg always <-> Reg sometimes
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Ah, right... right. Now that you mention it the rhetorical gaslighting of "I never said that" was not a first. Correct. Flip-flopping, i.e., lying, about the discussion so far really obfuscates the exchange of ideas if not completely killing the exchange.
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This is not unheard of though. I have seen a few U-turns where the one side just "steals" the arguments of the other and never admits to changing positions. What I haven't seem before this is the constant flipping.
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Do you have any further thoughts on this? I'd love to hear as you are correctly noticing certain people's tactics IMHO.
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I think it's a common rhetorical technique when engaging within/between belief groups. I catch myself doing it with gun control (I mask my anti-gun stance with less extreme versions).
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I love guns. But yeah, Americans should not have them. In Cyprus each house has an AK from the government and we don't shoot each other.
It's true.
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