wedrifid comments on The Four-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss - any LWers tried it? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 10 June 2011 08:21:11AM 1 point [-]

I think comparing Feriss to lukeprog's posts does the latter a grave injustice.

We have a significant disagreement.

Both lukeprog and Tim Ferris make the occasional mistake when speaking about subjects about which I am familiar their positions seem to be approximately equal (and fairly high) value starting point.

(Neither are at the level where I would outright defer to their judgement.)

Comment author: SilasBarta 17 June 2011 07:18:44PM -1 points [-]

Also, one of them (I'll let folks guess who) has consistently shown inability to withstand cross-examination on the use of any of his references.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 17 June 2011 07:40:32PM *  2 points [-]

It would be nice to see a reference supporting this criticism of someone's use of references :).

Comment author: SilasBarta 17 June 2011 07:54:31PM -2 points [-]

Who was I criticizing? ;-)

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 17 June 2011 10:34:56PM 3 points [-]

Who was I criticizing? ;-)

Someone — I'll let folks guess who ;).

Comment author: wedrifid 19 June 2011 06:42:16PM 0 points [-]

Also, one of them (I'll let folks guess who) has consistently shown inability to withstand cross-examination on the use of any of his references.

I don't believe you. I think you made that up. Weakening the claim to "anecdotally" would make it more credible and I would still want to see the context before I make evaluations of the appropriateness of the behavior given the circumstances.