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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5161395" data-attributes="member: 4720">That's how most people end up successful.  The trick is seeing the right fruit consistently.  Been that way since well before we were walking.  This is what trichromatic vision is for, after all, and brother, I got trichromatic vision.That aside, I'm curious why you hold a guy who writes a webcomic to higher standards than blogs, editorials, and even most "hard news" outlets?It is naive to think you will be able to read anything without bias.  I'm in academia and I've never seen such a beast.  No matter what people tell you, it doesn't actually exist.  Frankly, I prefer the primary bias to be written right on their sleeve so I can feel extra smart when I find the hidden biases and the implicit biases (the ones the author was deliberately hiding and the ones the author didn't even know were there).You don't read an OD&D blog expecting dispassionate analysis of different editions of D&D.  That would be a fool's errand.  Are you all up on those guys for their hyperbole?You don't read the blog of a French cooking enthusiast for examples of where French cooking's richness contributes to health problems.  Would you honestly expect that?  You won't even find an acknowledgment like that in academic work on the subject.And you don't read Tycho's thrice-weekly post looking for some sort of hard news or calmly stated point following all your high school debate teams rules.  He's fully capable of doing it on most subjects when he wants to, but (a) he rarely feels the need to genuflect at various cultural institutions; and (b) he knows his audience is waiting for the punchline.  Since he's a webcomic writer and not a news organization, he's entitled to give them that.</blockquote>

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