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<font face="Times New Roman">"A habit of viewing all feedback / critique as anti-open access? Can such a statement be convincingly demonstrated? I strongly doubt it...<br>
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"...reacting defensively, as if every critic were an enemy ..."<br>
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Really? Every critic? Now, now... <br>
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IMHO, robust exchanges should not be confused with various forms of paranoia, and pointing out weaknesses in arguments is not equivalent to treating someone as an "enemy".<br>
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Jean-Claude Guédon<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-08-21 4:18 p.m., Heather Morrison wrote:<br>
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Some further perspective on my comment "<span style="color: rgb(50, 49,
48); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West
European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, system-ui,
Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size:
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open access movement has developed<b> a habit of viewing all feedback / critique as anti-open access
</b>[emphasis added] and reacting defensively, as if <b>every</b> [emphasis added] critic were an enemy" reflects the history of the OA movement.</span></blockquote>
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