It depends. Those sorts of comments don't make me completely lose trust in their academic research - my view on universal grammar is completely unrelated to Chomsky's comments on the unvaccinated or the Khmer Rouge. But I suppose I take his commentary that is unrelated to linguistics slightly less seriously when Chomsky says something that seems plainly wrong to me?
It depends. Those sorts of comments don't make me completely lose trust in their academic research - my view on universal grammar is completely unrelated to Chomsky's comments on the unvaccinated or the Khmer Rouge. But I suppose I take his commentary that is unrelated to linguistics slightly less seriously when Chomsky says something that seems plainly wrong to me?
It depends. Those sorts of comments don't make me completely lose trust in their academic research - my view on universal grammar is completely unrelated to Chomsky's comments on the unvaccinated or the Khmer Rouge. But I suppose I take his commentary that is unrelated to linguistics slightly less seriously when Chomsky says something that seems plainly wrong to me?