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	Tolerating any form of ad hominem attack (which insiders can get away with but outsiders can't) tends to create a hierarchy of insiders and thus an [[insider culture]] similar to that of [[bureaucracy]] or [[academia]], where a trusted name can spout nonsense for years without being detected or kicked out, and where untrusted names with proof of their claims get ignored.		Tolerating any form of ad hominem attack (which insiders can get away with but outsiders can't) tends to create a hierarchy of insiders and thus an [[insider culture]] similar to that of [[bureaucracy]] or [[academia]], where a trusted name can spout nonsense for years without being detected or kicked out, and where untrusted names with proof of their claims get ignored.

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