Liberalism <- allowing academic freedom & freedom of speech; providing good-faith critiques of work you think is wrong (even if you think it's really crap or really offensive). Not liberalism <- signing a vaguely-worded petition trying to drum someone out of a job.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1070770137433759744 …
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Replying to @StuartJRitchie
Do you really think that if my institution hired for example an anti-vaxxer pseudoscientist I shouldn't write a letter opposing his hiring? Their open letter makes it clear they consider the work pseudoscience and oppose it on grounds of lack of rigor as well as public harm.
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Replying to @economeager
Well that's why I said "vaguely-worded" - couldn't they even hyperlink to a critique, or to the actual work they consider unrigorous/pseudoscience?
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Replying to @StuartJRitchie @economeager
But to answer your specific question: no, of course that's not what I think. But I assume you'd back up your criticism of someone as an anti-vaxxer by pointing to where they've said anti-vax stuff, at least.
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Replying to @StuartJRitchie @economeager
see https://openpsych.net/files/papers/Carl_2016b.pdf … and http://www.healthgeomatics.com/award-winner-in-dumb-research/ … this really is a terrible paper...
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Noah Carl already responded to the criticisms of that specific open access paper (https://openpsych.net/files/papers/Carl_2016b.pdf …) here: https://openpsych.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=292&pid=4388#pid4388 …
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I just read the paper and the critique and the reply to the critique. Carl's method and conclusion is appropriate, if anything the study should have made caveats and limitations more explicit. I expect this finding to replicate across countries, and within the UK, with more data.
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And it did. We replicated it in Denmark, but got shut down by censors in the journals (so far). It's currently under review in the nth journal.
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