asking "what's the harm?" and then detailing reasons why he thinks there's no harm is a rhetorical device not a Q&A session
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You're not punching up! You're defending a powerful old guy in your field against a random on twitter!
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He doesn't need me to defend him. AT ALL. I am defending myself because his ideas are valuable and helpful to me.
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As are for me and for many other experimental and computational psychologists.
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Yup, and as I said above, we're a tiny minority. In fact, we're often the butt of non-modeller's jokes. I've heard so many divergent negative views of us. Including in side-threads and in general on Twitter where people hint that we're not even in the same field.
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