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Banks' choice of a starting point seems to invoke an expansive notion of the intellectual that includes some (but not all) academics, novelists, journalists, composers, artists, programmers, pundits, and poets--an idea I think muddies more than it clarifies.
In clinical trials, whether one looks at efficacy (please see our opening argument in this debate [17]) or safety, omitting placebo often muddies the scientific waters and places the public health at increased risk.
“I'm not a fan of the idea that it's useful to use the word ‘sex’ to describe compatibility between mating types—it muddies the waters.”
This usage muddies the distinction between two perfectly good words with their own meanings, and I see no justification for it.