[bartathe]

You hit the nail on the head. I'm already noticing points I improperly conveyed, necessary context for that that I left out or did not explicitly clarify, avenues to the creation of new misunderstandings that might lead to new public pressures and criticisms if any of this information propagates. I finally understand "never explain, never complain." I am never commenting in public again without significant editing, trying to consider the out-of-field perspective very deeply to think about misinterpretations that I unintentionally produce, discussing more with my colleagues what kind of engagement is productive and what kind isn't, etc. But when I made this comment, one of the other main comments was literally calling for executions.

[analog31]

In the future, every graduate student will need a PR department. And every Welfare recipient.