Kevin Simler

@ctbeiser @KevinSimler Preference falsification is not the same thing as exercised power or complete control.

@vgr @ctbeiser I don't understand why language enforcement doesn't scale. What happened to Tim Hunt?

@KevinSimler @ctbeiser They got him out of UCL, sentiment swung in his favor, UCL lost more brand equity than Tim Hunt himself. Pyrrhic.

@vgr @KevinSimler Not sure that's quite a pyrrhic victory— lay-protestors of Hunt lost much less reputation than UCL.

@ctbeiser @KevinSimler I certainly think that woman who originally misreported conversation is now a pariah outside her small world

@vgr @ctbeiser This is the heart of it right here, for me. Does she lose because she's a pariah to the rest of the world? Or does her...

@vgr @ctbeiser small world gain enough status (carrying her, within that world) to make up for it?

@KevinSimler @ctbeiser No, and this is why liberal arts/humanities overall have been steadily losing power to STEM for 50 years.