> How does society depolarize?

That's legitimately a nobel peace prize winning question

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> No, I don't think that's preferrable.  That just leads to pointless disagreements based on both sides having an inaccurate understanding

The problem with that is that there will always be dissent for the sake of dissent, right? But you're probably right that some sort of middle truth is preferable. I sometimes wonder how we get there from polarization. How does society depolarize?

> I might make a post about this for Pleb Economist.

That'd be awesome.

> Even when they don't, other people use their research to make irresponsible claims. It's an unfortunate aspect of the profession that the economists themselves have little control over.

This happens even to me and I'm not an academic. I've seen whole theories being ascribed to some code even though I thought I'd made it crystal clear. It's at times hard to take the blame for not stating things unambiguously enough when it happens, which is also part of how I get to "dissent for the sake of dissent".