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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. alloftheponies‏ @alloftheponies1 Oct 10
      Replying to @merlinc2 @HPluckrose and

      It’s one of the most well respected and influential journals in the field. Where else are these fields going to inform themselves other than top tier scholarship?

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    2. Merlin "2-4 LAKERS 2019 CHAMPS" C.‏ @merlinc2 Oct 10
      Replying to @alloftheponies1 @HPluckrose and

      Again, http://retractionwatch.com  Why is this field singled out, other than the authors don't like its particular politics or theoretical underpinnings? (It's not my cup of tea, either, but I think their critique is in good faith or all that clear.)

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @merlinc2 @alloftheponies1 and

      It's the field of epistemology which we have expertise in. We support people with other expertise finding other problems with knowledge production in their fields - eg the current debate about whether fat has been unfairly linked to disease in service of the sugar industry.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @merlinc2 and

      But we wouldn't necessarily complain if they focused their attention on that and didn't also learn about postmodernism and critical theory which drew on that and the epistemology which stems from this. Or about replication in social science. Or some debate over cold fusion.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @merlinc2 and

      It is very possible to focus on a single problem which you know about and/or which affects you without asserting that there are no other problems in the world. In academia people do specialise & it is not at all suspicious if they address problems in one field and not every field

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Merlin "2-4 LAKERS 2019 CHAMPS" C.‏ @merlinc2 Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @alloftheponies1 and

      I don't have any particular sympathies to the academic or political tendencies you critique, btw. As an outsider, tho, you look like you're imagining a bigger target than you're hitting.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @merlinc2 @alloftheponies1 and

      Where? What did we say that made you come to this conclusion?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Merlin "2-4 LAKERS 2019 CHAMPS" C.‏ @merlinc2 Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @alloftheponies1 and

      Putting aside the debates about how you arrive at your assessments, the tendencies you guys decry are a much smaller enclave of the university than you think, and more importantly, that ppl reading your work will be lead to believe.

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    9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @merlinc2 @alloftheponies1 and

      Show this, then. I've spent several years documenting with evidence what I am worried about.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Merlin "2-4 LAKERS 2019 CHAMPS" C.‏ @merlinc2 Oct 10
      Replying to @HPluckrose @alloftheponies1 and

      Sure. Here's a more superficial one, but the impact factors of the journals you cite are all under <5. Gender, Place, and Culture has a 1.0something. They may have high within-field influence (for argument's sake), but university or humanities-wide? Not so.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
      Replying to @merlinc2 @alloftheponies1 and

      That would only be a good argument if we'd claimed the problem to be within the whole university or humanities and not been very clear that we are not saying that.I asked for evidence we that we are saying it is a bigger problem, not stuff consistent with us saying it is specific

      6:26 PM - 10 Oct 2018
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose @merlinc2 and

          Gender, Place and Culture is the top feminist geography journal. We have been very clear that we are not criticising the field of geography but subdisciplines which approach it from a grievance studies perspective.pic.twitter.com/yBwc18RrBS

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose @merlinc2 and

          Why are you so determined to have a problem with our project when I have shown you evidence to answer all your concerns? It feels as though you want this to be bad somehow, even tho you have said you don't have sympathies with this kind of scholarship.

          6 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Merlin "2-4 LAKERS 2019 CHAMPS" C.‏ @merlinc2 Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose @alloftheponies1 and

          LOL, I'm not so determined. Like you say, I don't have a dog in this. But big-picture, my greatest concern is collateral damage to public perception of hum/soc sci inquiry (writ large), esp. by conservatives who are attacking the institution with a new vengeance.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
          Replying to @merlinc2 @alloftheponies1 and

          What would be the right way to address the problem we see? Should we not address it at all? How can it be fixed? Do you not think refusing to acknowledge a problem in our own fields and own political side can only weaken credibility of fields and left?

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        6. Merlin "2-4 LAKERS 2019 CHAMPS" C.‏ @merlinc2 Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose @alloftheponies1 and

          My own way is to instantiate critique by doing the scholarship in what you consider the right way and win over converts to your paradigm and way of approaching things. Ultimately, academic influence is about persuasion.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10
          Replying to @merlinc2 @alloftheponies1 and

          Don't you think we tried that!? I was told I was problematic and would have failed if I didn't produce what was wanted. One of us is forbidden from raising the issue in academia at all. We couldn't get published. We have still addressed it directly outside the academy.

          3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        8. Merlin "2-4 LAKERS 2019 CHAMPS" C.‏ @merlinc2 Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose @alloftheponies1 and

          Like I said, and like Kuhn observed, paradigms are more often than not hardened, intractable, and maintained by stubborn gatekeepers. (What's new?) But the academy is large enough now that you can be rejected by one quadrant and accepted by another.

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