You think that Elizabeth should have expected that taking an EA forum post with current score 87, written by “a vegan author and data scientist at a plant-based meat company”, and taking “what looked like his strongest source”, would yield a low-quality pro-vegan article? I mean, maybe that’s true, but if so, that seems like a harsher condemnation of vegan advocacy than anything Elizabeth has written.
Not before reading the link, but Elizabeth did state that they expected the pro-meat section to be terrible without reading it, presumably because of the first part.
Since the article is low-quality in the part they read and expected low-quality in the part they didn’t, they shouldn’t take it as evidence of anything at all; that is why I think it’s probably confirmation bias to take it as evidence against excess meat being related to health issues.
Reason for retraction: In hindsight, I think my tone was unjustifiably harsh and incendiary. Also the karma tells that whatever I wrote probably wasn’t that interesting.
You think that Elizabeth should have expected that taking an EA forum post with current score 87, written by “a vegan author and data scientist at a plant-based meat company”, and taking “what looked like his strongest source”, would yield a low-quality pro-vegan article? I mean, maybe that’s true, but if so, that seems like a harsher condemnation of vegan advocacy than anything Elizabeth has written.
Not before reading the link, but Elizabeth did state that they expected the pro-meat section to be terrible without reading it, presumably because of the first part.
Since the article is low-quality in the part they read and expected low-quality in the part they didn’t, they shouldn’t take it as evidence of anything at all; that is why I think it’s probably confirmation bias to take it as evidence against excess meat being related to health issues.
Reason for retraction: In hindsight, I think my tone was unjustifiably harsh and incendiary. Also the karma tells that whatever I wrote probably wasn’t that interesting.