We've gotta confront the fact that a lot of people want the thing they call Science (popular narrative convergence on academic work, actually) to tell them how to do life, and for the prescription to be roughly what they expected all along, while also fully relevant to the moment
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It took me a long time to acknowledge that I was scouring the work for reasons to dismiss it. And I found them; you'll *always* find them — flaws in methodology, overstated conclusions, etc. But it's still strong work that shows my preferred strategy doesn't work in all contexts.
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I don't love eating humble pie. I didn't tweet about this. I tweet about a lot of things I read and think about throughout the day, but I couldn't sell my brain on that one. "Here's this thing I find only partially convincing that complicates my deeply-held perspective. Yay!"
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When you're trying to incite some significant change in the world, it's natural to want a clean, legible path to doing it. And it's natural to want clean messaging around it. But that cuts against honesty — it just does. And it ultimately cuts against your own preferred outcomes.
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