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In my post above, I was interesting in how politics was spilling over into science in a way that doesn't usually occur in the US. I of course don't know what Brazil was thinking. Maybe it felt used. Maybe it felt exploited. Maybe it just felt no scientist should be making news in Brazil except Brazilian scientists.
In trying to write an interesting story, I was unfair to the unnamed linguist mentioned above. This is ironic, since I was writing about him being unfair to Everett, and quite possibly for the same reason. (I also previously wrote about William Saletan being unfair to Amodio at NYU. Saletan wrote me a note in response saying something to the effect of "it's hard to let clarity get in the way of making a good read." He's right.)
Mea culpa.