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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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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 5
      Replying to @ConceptualJames @GodDoesnt and

      You got the same with 'Everybody is wrong about God.' The existence of some feminist work largely depends on them not saying anything which breaks the rules - eg patriarchy isn't real, biological gender differences are real,

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
    2. Liana Kerzner (Princess Sparklemuffin)‏Verified account @redlianak Jan 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @GodDoesnt and

      That's true of every academic field I've encountered

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 5
      Replying to @redlianak @GodDoesnt and

      Not quite but it's getting there. Medieval studies held out but is succumbing now. I did a survey of female academics recently where some biologists spoke of their difficulty saying that biological gender differences are real.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    4. Sean‏ @BlackGriffin0 Jan 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @redlianak and

      The underlying trouble is that there is a need to gate-keep on credibility, if only to keep the signal-to-noise of the literature high. Those credibility mechanisms are being twisted to gate-keep based on acceptance of an orthodoxy. Wish I knew of a solution. :(

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Liana Kerzner (Princess Sparklemuffin)‏Verified account @redlianak Jan 5
      Replying to @BlackGriffin0 @HPluckrose and

      The peer-review process is being corrupted and bypassed in equal measure. But that started at least with Marshall McLuhan. It's not new. Jesus look at vaccines and autism. That was a major fubar at the Lancet.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 5
      Replying to @redlianak @BlackGriffin0 and

      Yes & how do we know it was wrong? Because the field responded and said so. Pulled it apart. Refuted it comprehensively on many fronts. Did many, many more studies to prove it.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Liana Kerzner (Princess Sparklemuffin)‏Verified account @redlianak Jan 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @BlackGriffin0 and

      In fairness, it took years. Same thing happens in social studies. Pendulum swings, it swings back. The path to truth is not a straight line. I say this as someone who has been thoroughly bludgeoned by that pendulum.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 5
      Replying to @redlianak @BlackGriffin0 and

      No, it didn't. You're not seriously claiming that vaccines causing autism was accepted by relevant scientists for years? I know it wasn't. I had a baby and was bombarded with info from the NHS refuting it

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Liana Kerzner (Princess Sparklemuffin)‏Verified account @redlianak Jan 5
      Replying to @HPluckrose @BlackGriffin0 and

      It took twelve years for them to retract the article.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 5
      Replying to @redlianak @BlackGriffin0 and

      Then blame the Lancet. We wouldn't be criticising feminist theory if one of their jounals refused to retract a bad study whilst the majority of the field made the problem clear & carried out & published &made accessible many disconfirming studies.

      4:15 PM - 5 Jan 2018
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        2. Liana Kerzner (Princess Sparklemuffin)‏Verified account @redlianak Jan 5
          Replying to @HPluckrose @BlackGriffin0 and

          That's kind of my point: individual errors shouldn't negate the GOOD scholarship that does exist. Certain fields of study have greater problems than others. Let's fix them. Not declare them irrelevant.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 5
          Replying to @redlianak @BlackGriffin0 and

          Not declaring them irrelevant. Wanting to do them properly. Pointing out the problem in the field preventing this.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 5
          Replying to @HPluckrose @redlianak and

          If you think we're mistaken and the majority of the field of feminist theory is rigorous and evidence-based and managing to publish much work refuting the loons, please do write something showing all this. Camille Paglia is very unpopular in the field.

          2 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
        5. Ian Pace #FBPE‏ @ianpacemain Jan 6
          Replying to @HPluckrose @redlianak and

          The problem may be one of who the gatekeepers are - a problem in many academic disciplines, for sure, but acute here - how often are articles peer-reviewed by those looking for rigorous, evidence-based arguments, rather than simply arriving at the ‘right’ conclusion?

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