@JeffSharlet Agreed! (My excepted, of course.)
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Replying to @jacremes
@jacremes@JeffSharlet What I will say is that peer review (when done well) gives you argumentative rigor more than fact-checking.2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@JeffSharlet I think this is exactly right, because this is the point of peer review.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @JeffSharlet
@JeffSharlet@HeerJeet Honestly, I'm not sure. And I think that in the cases where we do, it's not for reasons of fact checking/peer review4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @JeffSharlet
@JeffSharlet@jacremes But that's a problem of journalism as well as academia: assumption of unwarranted authority.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@JeffSharlet@jacremes I think this argument is confusing information and knowledge.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @prof_gabriele
@prof_gabriele@JeffSharlet@jacremes Exactly. Academics don't necessarily have "facts" on hand but can help in thinking about argument.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@prof_gabriele@jacremes Academic authority OUTSIDE the academy is based on the illusion of mastery of facts, not arguments.5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@JeffSharlet @prof_gabriele @jacremes That's a widely shared misunderstanding of academy which needs to be debunked, yes.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@prof_gabriele@jacremes That won't happen tho, because the academics who love being called upon most depend on it.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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