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.
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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