Comment by protocolture

Havent read the interview, but interviews arent formal debates and I would never expect someone to hold themselves to that same standard.

The same way that reddit comments arent a formal debate.

Mocking is absolutely useful. Sometimes you debate someone like graham hancock and force him to confirm that he has no evidence for his hypotheses, then when you discuss the debate, you mock him relentlessly for having no evidence for his hypotheses.

> Yet here is Chomsky addressing a lay audience that has no linguistics background

So not a formal debate or paper where I would expect anyone to hold to debate principles.