Why Principles Outlast Tactics

Why Principles Outlast Tactics

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 29 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Tactics work until conditions change. Principles adapt because they're based on underlying truths, not surface patterns.

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What was corrected

What the page claimed

Article cited two real, verifiable studies with statistics that were garbled or narrowed from their actual published figures.

What was corrected

Corrected the Prasad et al. statistics to the real study's actual funnel (2,044 total, 363 tested an established practice, 146 or 40.2 percent were reversals); corrected de Solla Price's doubling-time range to his real 10-15 years.

Why this is better

Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times citation on First Amendment doctrine verified as accurate.

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