Which is a very different statement than the following:
> Miles Jackson :
> Call me a well indoctrinated child of the Enlightenment, but the
> motives of someone who is providing information or a specific argument
> are completely irrelevant to a critical and rational assessment of the
> person's assertions.
Who was arguing that motives trump all data? No one here that I read. One could just as easily say to the reject any mention of conflict of interest and only to disclose the raw data used is actually counterproductive and irrational too but no one is arguing that position either. Motives matter. Sometimes very little and sometimes a great deal. It is situational.
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