If everything had seemed fine in the world of Gender Studies but the hoax worked, people would have said 'What just happened and why?'
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This doesn't reveal a failure of scepticism. It reveals people enjoying a very funny example of what they knew due to mountains of evidence
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What you've described sounds exactly like confirmation bias.
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It did actually happen. We didn't just think it did. Still open to good stuff coming from it.
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In the same way, I enjoy satire against religion but remain open to evidence of God's existence.
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That said, I suspect rationale for many has more to do with watching Milo etc. rather than delving deep into GS. Need robust criticisms.
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Fuck Milo. Watching NewPeerReview and reading reasonable ppl (hopefully including me) talking about the problem.
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