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cladking Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > Specialised experience is not a credential?
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> > Is it not evident that shouting about credentials
> > is suicide for the fringe?
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> Experience writing about Egypt and "skepticism" is
> not experience at all. If it were sports writers
> would be stars. . . .
Which is merely argument from analogy, a notoriously fallible and strictly invalid form.
Yes, it is experience. It entails inter alia research, fact checking, familiarity with sources and tracing things to sources, all of which are relevant to and all too often lacking in the discussions here.
M.
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> > Specialised experience is not a credential?
> >
> > Is it not evident that shouting about credentials
> > is suicide for the fringe?
>
> Experience writing about Egypt and "skepticism" is
> not experience at all. If it were sports writers
> would be stars. . . .
Which is merely argument from analogy, a notoriously fallible and strictly invalid form.
Yes, it is experience. It entails inter alia research, fact checking, familiarity with sources and tracing things to sources, all of which are relevant to and all too often lacking in the discussions here.
M.
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