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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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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 6 Nov 2017

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Oh Yeah Because That's Totally

    This bad argument keeps coming up. 'Ppl called an idea we now accept as good 'extremist lunacy' before so my extremist lunacy must be too.https://twitter.com/AwrySquare/status/927657342316969985 …

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    Oh Yeah Because That's Totally @AwrySquare
    Replying to @HPluckrose @0Kultra @GodDoesnt
    I remember when letting people transition, or be attracted to more than one gender, was "far-left" lunacy. But I'm sure you're perfect now.
    2:04 PM - 6 Nov 2017
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    • Anthony Suddaby Tom Marty BarlowD Vanchelot ⚜️ Voted Least Consummate Professional 🇱 🇦 🇳〰 Kal Nova Prospect      #Article13=#StaliNaziEU.#Brexit (((ɹoqǝɹʇs ɹ ɔ)))
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      1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 6 Nov 2017

        When in reality, we don't accept that idea as good because it was extremist lunacy but because it had merits we can demonstrate.

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      2. Oh Yeah Because That's Totally‏ @AwrySquare 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Well you better start coming up with a better counter-argument than "lol u crazey"

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @AwrySquare

        I just linked you one. I can link many more? https://conatusnews.com/care-much-hypocrisy-now/ …https://areomagazine.com/2017/02/15/the-problem-with-intersectional-feminism/ …

        2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      4. Oh Yeah Because That's Totally‏ @AwrySquare 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        "you see rightwing minorities prove that intersectionality is bullshit, checkmate socialists"pic.twitter.com/a9yvdkWbYm

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @AwrySquare

        There's an essay attached to that...

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      1. (((TheTracker)))‏ @IdiotTracker 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        In the climate debate, where this sort of thinking is endemic among deniers, this is called the Bozo the clown fallacy:pic.twitter.com/oBfnnl0ai7

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      1. Pay Tree Arch Is Back, With a Longer Name Than Bef‏ @paytreearch 6 Nov 2017
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        "Remember that time people said some other unrelated thing was wrong, but it wasn't? That's why I'm right."

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      1. Henry Fitzgerald‏ @HenryTarquin 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It's the they-laughed-at-Galileo argument

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      1. [Ravi] {{{Oli}}}‏ @SatyreContraire 7 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Sadly inaccurate user name.

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      1. Juriaan Romijn‏ @jfromijn_nl 7 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        ahh ye old "they called (famous scientist) crazy too when he/she proposed (reason for scientists fame)".

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      1. Eric Bohlman‏ @ebohlman 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        2/ "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

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      1.  🐸not 🐸 AliRadicali‏ @Banned_Ali 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        My favourite is "people thought homosexuality was a mental disorder so pedophilia is just a sexual orientation too" 🤦‍♂️😡

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      1. James Gavin‏ @mad_gav 7 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        It's the: 'They laughed at Galileo' gambit

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      1. Seer‏ @Wolf_Seer 7 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose @CathyYoung63

        I still call it lunacy. By people with zero understanding of biology and an overload of gender activist politically correct ignorance.

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      1. Eric Bohlman‏ @ebohlman 6 Nov 2017
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        1/ Medical skeptic David Gorski (@gorskon / @oracknows) calls this the "Gallileo Gambit". Or, as Carl Sagan put it,

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