Not that I’m offended by the allegation of epistemological abuse I just find it interesting and want to read more about it🤣

Ironically, the few readers who will appreciate the reference to Sophists are also the readers likely most capable of reading something and thinking that they have therefore come to know something: people who have invested a large chunk of their experience in reading. I chose this name for the same reason that Plato…

It’s not clear to me that he even thinks they should stop complaining. Even when he says it as bluntly as “they should stop complaining” it’s hard for me to read his protest as sincere. What is clear is that he will take those complaints as an occasion to use the comparative device you have described to make fun of…

I’m just enjoying the irony that you’re criticizing the existence of this story while doing the single thing that can increase the odds of stories like this being published. Bravo 👏

Why leave comments pending which point out factual gaps in your reporting?

Why no mention that all of the Delta 8 in the products commercially available isn’t from Delta 8 being extracted from hemp plants (where it doesn’t occur naturally in more than trace amounts), but being synthesized from CBD, a process in which numerous unidentifiable byproducts of unknown safety can also be created?

People enthusiastically smoking pot 40 years ago is proof that the industry will have demand even without the quality attainable through indoor cultivation. Otherwise, your argument is exactly the same as the argument of the urban commuter who drives a Hummer. “Sure, I could take the bus, but I like this more, and don’…

I wonder what is going on internally at Jalopnik that attracts such excellent writers/enables such excellent writing. As a reader, I fell respected by both you and by Jalopnik that you got meta regarding the norms of journalistic ethics suddenly applying to a class of professionals who may not think of themselves as…

Thank you Jalopnik for relentlessly covering the growing technocult of “free market” imperialists using electric cars and other “green” consumer trends as opportunities for the further consolidation of global capital. Car companies are all problematic. But Tesla is particularly problematic for the way it is…