Coyne isn't wrong here. But again, the phenomenon he's describing did not originate with social media, & very conveniently he didn't notice it when he was - in the past - among the perpetrators: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/pinkergate-the-last-word/ …
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Oh, and one other thing - right now there's a pile on against P. Z. Myers. If you think pile ons are bad, then you shouldn't join in.
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The thing about pile ons is everybody thinks theirs is righteous. But human beings are really, really bad at distancing themselves from the seductions of their in-group, so we shouldn't trust our judgements.
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This is a basic principle to avoid echo chamber nonsense. If anyone hauls you up on something & engages sensibly with an argument, follow her or him (and drop them later if they’re annoying). At least 1/4 of your TL should be those guys.
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Agreed. The only exception would be those people who defend brutalist architecture. Never ever follow them!



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I’m inclined to agree, but then I loved & usually agreed with the late great Gavin Stamp. And brutalism is not modernism, and concrete is not always wrong, as he was the first to stress.
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