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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. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev Oct 15

      I thought this was a pretty fair piece - on that Sokal2 hoax.https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17951492/grievance-studies-sokal-squared-hoax …

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    2. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev Oct 15

      Nobody listens to me, but my opinion is the best way to test these things is to agree to a protocol with those who are making the claims. And agree beforehand whether a particular result would disprove the claims.

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    3. Beat Confusion‏ @BeatConfusion Oct 15
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      The Vox piece deploys a "moral contamination" argument, in asserting that, because Tucker appreciates the hoax, the project is tainted. That's poor reasoning. Also, the main contention of the project doesn't depend on acceptance rate *relative to* more substantial fields. /1

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    4. Beat Confusion‏ @BeatConfusion Oct 15
      Replying to @BeatConfusion @christianjbdev

      The results speak for themselves. What they show is that the editors of leading "grievance study" journals are in some cases sufficiently interested in ludicrous topics & propositions to send these papers out for review and even publish them. That they are committed to BS. 2/2

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    5. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev Oct 15
      Replying to @BeatConfusion

      I don't think the 'results speak fo themselves', and I don't think it unfair for a journalist to talk about political motivations; especially when one of the hoaxers appears to have been buddies with Stefan Molyneaux.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 15
      Replying to @christianjbdev @BeatConfusion

      People can always speculate about other's motivations & this very often reveals their own. However, even if we are sectretly Nazis, this would not have caused the awful scholarship we relied on to exist, got our papers accepted or made reviewers direct us as they did

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    7. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev Oct 15
      Replying to @HPluckrose @BeatConfusion

      OK, but I still don't think it was improper for the journalist to point out that one of your fellow hoaxers was making videos with Stefan Molyneaux.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 15
      Replying to @christianjbdev @BeatConfusion

      Journalists can point out whatever they want. Other people will have to decide whether the fact that someone who did a thing has previously worked with someone who turned out to be a certifiable loon invalidates or compromises the thing that they did.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 15
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev @BeatConfusion

          I'd suggest it doesn't unless it can be shown that the video can have had any impact on, say, feminist epistemology existing and being usable it to justify our papers & make them acceptable & how reviewers directed us.

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        3. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev Oct 15
          Replying to @HPluckrose @BeatConfusion

          I agree that, strictly speaking, the validity of your argument doesn't depend on anything but the argument itself. But, a journalist will also be interested in motivation and context. And for that, I think it's fair to look at what's in the public record.

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        4. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev Oct 15
          Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose @BeatConfusion

          I mean, I think if an academic decides to make a video explaining his views and publishes it on youtube, then that's pretty much fair game for a journalist. As long as he doesn't misrepresent the video.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 15
          Replying to @christianjbdev @BeatConfusion

          I'm not sure how this relates to how convincing what we did is tho. The fact that journalists can point out we have done things we have, in fact, is not under dispute. It only relates to what we have done this time if someone wants to use it to argue that we are ill-motivated.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 15
          Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev @BeatConfusion

          And people are going to think our motivations are bad. There has been much posting of pictures of our previous essay titles to contextualise our positions on Social Justice ideology and claim that we are ideologically opposed to it. We are. They disagree we should be. OK.

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        7. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev Oct 15
          Replying to @HPluckrose @BeatConfusion

          But, that is OK. People are allowed to have different opinions. And I'm pretty much fine with disagreement, as long as it doesn't involve journalists wilfully misrepresenting anyone's views.

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        8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 15
          Replying to @christianjbdev @BeatConfusion

          I said "OK." I will continue to argue with them.

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