Ep.67 How to constructively resolve an argument about safety theory? safetyofwork.com/episodes/…

Topics: Finding original sources. Figuring out what the original source says. Understanding context. Looking for the overall position of a paper or book. Design vs. behavior. Why new and old ideas aren’t mutually exclusive. The line between sharing and evangelizing. Knowledge and evidence that moves the debate forward.

Quotes:

“Unless an entire field is genuinely pseudoscience, it’s always very, very dangerous to dismiss an entire field.”

“A lot of the time that there is a disagreement with Safety II, it’s basically people saying we shouldn’t be throwing out everything to do with Safety I. What we actually need is some kind of middle-ground between Safety I and Safety II.”

“A lot of the time, when we argue, there’s an implicit assumption that we can only agree with one of the theories, because they’re somehow mutually exclusive.”