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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> To the extent that disclosing "potential conflict of interest" leads</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> people to reject a message without actually assessing the content,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> the imputation of a "conflict of interest" is actually</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> counterproductive and irrational.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Miles</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Which is a very different statement than the following:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Miles Jackson :</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> Call me a well indoctrinated child of the Enlightenment, but the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> motives of someone who is providing information or a specific argument</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> are completely irrelevant to a critical and rational assessment of the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style="font-size:10pt">> person's assertions. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">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.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">John Thornton</span></font></div>
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