You can’t be neutral on a moving train

Jeffrey Heinz; Jonathan Rawski

doi:10.1017/S0140525X26104798

You can’t be neutral on a moving train

Jeffrey Heinz
, Jonathan Rawski

Linguistics

San Jose State University

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The commentary argues the authors employ misdirection and strawmanning to cast others as polarized extremes and themselves as the reasonable centrists. We argue that these patterns of misrepresentation ultimately damage any consensus and middle ground they claim to hope to reach.

Original language	English
Article number	e209
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26104798
State	Published - Jul 1 2026

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