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This usage muddies the distinction between two perfectly good words with their own meanings, and I see no justification for it.
“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.”
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.