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0 pointslamontcg5y ago0 comments

It is possible to be both biased and correct.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_bias

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Noting an author's biases/motives, like agarttha did, is useful. It's not the same as asserting that a conclusion is logically false because of the biases of the person who argued it.

pydry5y ago

In this case I thought it was rather obvious what the author's bias was and he doesnt't try to hide it.

It might be useful if they tried to conceal it. E.g tried to present themselves as an objective researcher at a think tank that takes money from general dynamics/lockheed or a journalist who clearly hastily rewrote a press release.

mamon5y ago

Broken clock shows the right time twice a day. Biased people being correct is an exception, not the rule. We should be suspicious of people with know biases.

lamontcgOP5y ago

Well that's interesting in light of the obvious pro-nuclear bias of HN.

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