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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
What you've described sounds exactly like confirmation bias.
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Replying to @greggentry1 @GodDoesnt
It did actually happen. We didn't just think it did. Still open to good stuff coming from it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Seralini's mice "studies," weren't made up, either. Submitting to ever less prestigious journals. P-hacking. I see little difference.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
Ex 1: I have a theory, gender studies is intellectually flawed. I'm rejected at NORMA, but submit to another. Look, I proved my point!
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Replying to @greggentry1 @GodDoesnt
Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Helen Pluckrose
That's a refutation of a claim a hoax alone proves GS worthless but my point was opposite.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/867136017123422213 …
Helen Pluckrose added,
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Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt
That the hoax confirms people's existing conclusion (bias)? Like Wakefield did for vaccines being bad? Seralini for GMO's being unhealthy?
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Replying to @greggentry1 @GodDoesnt
Ppl are certainly using it to confirm biases rather than taking it as it is. Very interesting how they spin it.
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I've not yet seen anyone say it alone invalidates gender studies tho!
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