#preferentialmethod — Public Fediverse posts
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> Elsewhere in Better Angels, Pinker reverses course and reports that there were “373,000 deaths from 2003 to 2008” in the Darfur states of the western Sudan, accepting a body count produced via the same retrospective survey method used by the Johns Hopkins teams for Iraq. This is the #PreferentialMethod of research in action.
#PreferentialResearch #CherryPicking ? -
> Pinker deals with #ChalmersJohnson and his ilk by the application of the “#PreferentialMethod” of research, which is his modus operandi across the board. That is, he never mentions Johnson and never addresses his facts and arguments. He also never cites #AndrewBacevich, another outstanding and experienced analyst who gives a lot of weight to the power of the military-industrial complex (MIC), its costliness, blowback consequences, and its threat to a democratic order.