Sure if you just call it “honest reporting”. But that was not the full phrase used. The full phrase used was “honest reporting of unconsciously biased reasoning”.
I would not call trimming that down to “honest reporting” a case of honest reporting! ;-)
If I claim, “Joe says X, and I think he honestly believes that, though his reasoning is likely unconsciously biased here”, then that does not at all seem to me like an endorsement of X, and certainly not a clear endorsement.
Sure if you just call it “honest reporting”. But that was not the full phrase used. The full phrase used was “honest reporting of unconsciously biased reasoning”.
I would not call trimming that down to “honest reporting” a case of honest reporting! ;-)
If I claim, “Joe says X, and I think he honestly believes that, though his reasoning is likely unconsciously biased here”, then that does not at all seem to me like an endorsement of X, and certainly not a clear endorsement.