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But I did feel the need to break down why it doesn't make sense to ask why we didn't send papers to other fields to demonstrate grievance studies alone has problems. It's coz we can only get these papers in journals which accept them & are not claiming GS alone has problems.
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People keep asking this & I don't think this would happen if we were researching, say, dubious data about the harmfulness of fat. People would understand the need to focus on journals which published things about fat & not assume a claim that this is the only problem that exists.
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I'm not sure why this is happening because we targeted this field but I suspect it is because it is politically loaded and people suspect bad motivations, feel defensive and resort to whataboutism. Other fields have problems too! I'm not suggesting you are doing this.
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I think because we targeted journals which look at gender, race & sexuality, people wonder if we have a problem with women and racial & sexual minorities & this manifests by asking why we chose these fields & not others. No, we have a problem with the epistemology & ethics.
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This is what we all do in one way or another. Look at epistemology and ethics and argue for evidence-based epistemology & consistently liberal ethics. We used to focus more on religion & its truth claims and the basis for them and ethics around women's and LGBT rights.
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Do you worry that we may have pushed against religion too hard in the mid-late 2000's? I do. I worry that a lot of what we've seen in the past few years is largely because the new atheist movement was *too* successful... that the religion hole was filled with... something else
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Yes and no. I think we were overconfident that if we made religion withdraw, people would become more reasonable and less ideological. I think this correlation does hold true to a certain extent but that we'll still find other outlets.
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