@richardabetts @stevebloom55 @flimsin @JacquelynGill Just to clarify the context and full quote: I was speaking to recent graduates, and said that, unless they really enjoyed it (in which case, go right ahead!) there was no need for these recent grads to devote their primary outreach efforts to responding to professional skeptic bloggers as there were already many really good people doing that already. By really good people I was thinking of the planet3.0 crowd here in North America and others like yourselves in the U.K. Perhaps my Canadian side coming out, but I don't think anyone should impose rules on others as to what they should or should not do. I don't enjoy it when other scientists reprimand me for choosing not to respond to people who call me ugly names; so in the same spirit, I try to refrain from judging others when they do engage.

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