Folks: A brief reminder -- it is more polite, more productive
of useful discussion, and ultimately more rhetorically effective
(especially when speaking to a knowledgeable academically minded
audience), not to accuse fellow discussants of dishonesty, or to impugn
their motivations.
Give your data and your arguments, and let the reader come to
his own conclusion. If your arguments are sound, the reader will be
much more persuaded by a conclusion that he arrives at himself than he
would be by your claims that the other guy is dishonest.
More broadly, it's almost always helpful to soften allegations.
X is mistaken, not flat wrong. X seems to have fallen into error, not
dishonest. It may sound like a pointless circumlocution, but it's not.
It's a valuable, effective, and helpful circumlocution.
Many thanks,
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