Bron Gondwana <brong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Not sure if deliberate misunderstanding or not - but I believe this is about my comments since I was the main proponent of "a lack of consensus in the NY Times comment section supports a hypothesis of a lack of consensus in wider US society". > It was not you specifically, it was the discussion with many participants, with several either expressing or assuming the idea that "no consensus in the US population" necessarily means that TERM should just give up and not look into this at all. My point is only partly that NY Times commenters tells us very little about "the US population". My bigger point is that this idea of concensus in the US population, whatever we can or cannot determine about it from NY Times comments, is not relevant to the matter of whether TERM should do the work we've been told they're going to do. -- Cos
