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by specialist 2340 days ago
Lehrer's Rules are solid, ethical, and actionable. I agree 100%.

Alas, they are completely moot in today's ad-supported automated outrage machines. And I'm fresh out of goodwill.

Until we decide that discourse is more important than profits, forge a new consensus, we have to treat reporting like the replication crisis in science.

Just two rules apply:

Sign your work.

Share your data.

The corollaries are just as simple:

Unsigned, unsourced statements are gossip.

Unsupported data is propaganda.