A lot of them do have power structures that they're in favour of, and so presumably would give glowing reviews to...
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Oh, but honey, those aren't "power structures" because they're not oppressing good people. A "power structure" is guilty by definition and those on top always bad, and the privileged can't be oppressed; so what good unprivileged people are on top of can't be a power structure.
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E: Starting from a position of criticism is less favorable to the scientific process than not starting from one. Responders: YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WORDS MEAN
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The rest of us: (proffering uncritical critiques of critters criticisms) Dear, whatever makes you happy & passes peer review is ok with us.
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I did have to glance back when reading your tweet because I think of "critique" as neutral (even though I don't think of "criticize" as neutral), but it was *totally clear* what you had in mind and the point is valid.
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I think that many mistook the tweet as saying “criticism has no value.” Criticism can and does help us direct our attention toward a phenomenon, so we can devise a way to study it empirically, but that doesn’t make the criticism itself scientific.
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Glad you finally figured out that moron bit.
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I’d be in support of the neutral science. I’m also concerned that social structures are hard to define neutrally while participating in them. Isn’t ‘critique’ a weak claim of neutrality?
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