Exactly. When ppl read abt the hoax & responded 'Gender Studies is a mess', they'd not suddenly come to that conclusion due to the hoax! https://twitter.com/GodDoesnt/status/867134296057929728 …
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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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But the hoax DIDN'T work. That's the point.
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??? Perhaps you think it should have achieved more than the authors did?
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I think their methods were terrible, their conclusions overstated, and their evidence bogus. So yeah, more than that would be good.
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Why don't you do that? Satire is not for everyone. Other ppl found it funny & enjoy resulting conversation.
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Satire is fine. Claiming that your satire is a wholesale indictment of a diversified field is not.
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Yes, don't do that. We've been here. No-one is claiming the hoax alone discredits Gender Studies. 1 small piece of puzzle.
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