I give less credibility to people who have *only* criticisms of another person's ideas & collect all & any negative assessment of any aspect of anything they've every said. It indicates dislike of an individual rather than a balanced, thorough & honest engagement with ideas.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @kareem_sabri and
"balanced assessment" doesn't mean positive and negative if the ideas are bad. Would you downrate someone for not linking to positive assessments of Nazis? Why not read the links and decide if you agree or disagree?
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Replying to @nberlat @HPluckrose and
So we go from “scientists like him” to “I don’t trust scientists who don’t like him”. Convenient little maneuver to dismiss any and all critiques.
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Replying to @Manglewood @nberlat and
I'm supposed to take seriously a man who tells people what to do based on what lobsters do, and gets even that wrong? What are these empirically correct statements which he's supposed to have made? Honestly curious.
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Replying to @thatyellowfog @Manglewood and
It's inaccurate to claim the man has made no correct statements, or no empirical statements. And it's naive and foolish to consider him stupid, as many people do. I don't know about "empirically correct", but his discussion of the gender pay gap is certainly empirically grounded.
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what?! his discussion of the gender pay gap is where he gets precipitously owned by actual economists.
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Replying to @gztstatistics @kareem_sabri and
Actual economists debunk the gender pay gap routinely!
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Replying to @HPluckrose @thatyellowfog and
uh, it's pretty well-established in the literature.
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Replying to @gztstatistics @HPluckrose and
not worth it. She's an editor at Areo; that mag is conservative culture war bs from front to back, and they love Peterson.
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Replying to @nberlat @gztstatistics and
This kind of dishonestly does not serve you well. Areo is non-partisan, has many leftist writers, including me and has published several pieces critical of Peterson. We've only actually published one which included a positive mention of him.https://areomagazine.com/2018/01/29/the-guru-appeal-of-jordan-peterson-in-our-post-everything-world/ …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @nberlat and
Dispense with your tribalism. You actually came into this conversation because I was being critical of Peterson. The fact that I think your kind of indiscriminate hit-job collection actually undermines sincere & thoughtful critique of him does not suddenly make me a fan.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @nberlat and
This wretched world urgently needs an army of you, Helen. You make sense.
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