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Thanks. I didn't receive Part II yesterday. Has the writer of the letter responded?

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Claire Berlinski

Thanks. I did get it today. I was wondering if the person you fisked so admirably has responded to you.

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He has, and I've asked his permission to publish it. I saw this as "debate," not "fisking."

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Since it was a response to a writing directly to you, and not a response to a public article or op-ed, I agree that it was more of a debate than a fisk. Fisks tend not to be 'back and forth'.

Although if it were a response to an op-ed it would have been an excellent fisk.

Fisk in the sense of to refute line by line, as opposed to in the sense of making something appear stupid.

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