It is completely reasonable for a college professor to make claims such as: 1. "God" is not a scientific construct. 2. Humans evolved from non-human ancestors 3. There is no evidence that Jesus, Mohammed, or Moses existed 4. The original text of the Bible is unknowable
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Replying to @PsychRabble @theFuriousSJW and
It is completely reasonable for a college professor to raise the possibility of, and collect data bearing on, whether spikes on social phenomena constitute "social contagions." It is completely reasonable for a college professor to say, "there are only two biological sexes."
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Replying to @PsychRabble @MagnusPharao and
I’d actually say that plotting cults as social contagions, and talking about the weird social psychological pressures that keep people in cults is important and pertinent to this topic.
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Replying to @and_furiouser @theFuriousSJW and
I did not make the comparison to religion and metaphysics randomly.
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Replying to @Sevens_2 @theFuriousSJW and
No, but you did do it tendentiously, since denying God and denying someone's request for a specific set of pronouns is not comparable.
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Replying to @MagnusPharao @theFuriousSJW and
The comparison actually was rather successful, so far.
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Replying to @Sevens_2 @theFuriousSJW and
I do think it is a good comparison. The common denominator is that professors should try their best not to be assholes to their students, since that is bad for learning.
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Replying to @MagnusPharao @Sevens_2 and
This is true, and your point about directing a comment TO a student with a flippant comparison to fairy tales stands, I think
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Replying to @and_furiouser @theFuriousSJW and
I think we can all agree that: Profs should try not to be assholes to their students. However, tweeting, or writing a WSJ Op Ed is not doing anything to students. And that is what started this convo and the wider controversy. Red herring alert.
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Replying to @PsychRabble @theFuriousSJW and
It likely does have an effect, just like James Watson's public and private statements had a chilling effect on early career researchers
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Everything "affects" everything else, or at least might. Glad we cleared that out of the way. Colin was not interacting with students. One cannot be an asshole to people with whom one is not interacting. No one is compelled to read the WSJ. Or follow him on Twitter.
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Replying to @PsychRabble @theFuriousSJW and
No but current behavior can sometimes reasonably be considered predictive of future behavior, no?
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Replying to @MagnusPharao @theFuriousSJW and
There was no "behavior" other than writing an article on Tweeting. Neither you, nor anyone else here, has any basis to predict his -- or anyone else's -- behavior with real people on such bases. If you think otherwise? Show me a shred of evidence.
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