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    Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019

    Relativity was so much easier to understand before the postmodern feminists took away our privileged reference frames.pic.twitter.com/NJYEDw4YJO

    7:41 AM - 15 Dec 2019
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      2. Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019

        Simon Whitten Retweeted Liam Bright

        Here's a debunking of the rape manual claim:https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1182684990741602305 …

        Simon Whitten added,

        Liam Bright @lastpositivist
        Here's something that often gets made fun of but is perfectly reasonable - Sandra Harding's "claim" (you'll see why I scare quote) that Newton's Principia was a "rape manual". Google "Harding rape manual" and you'll see it gets a lot of culture war mocking from Team Science...
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      3. Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019

        Worth noting at the time he gave this talk he'd already had his misunderstanding of the "rape manual" comment pointed out to him in a letter to Nature. That doesn't stop him from repeating the lie, though.https://www.nature.com/articles/24973 

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      4. Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019

        Simon Whitten Retweeted Simon Whitten

        How many different ways can Dawkins misunderstand this one book?https://twitter.com/Simon_Whitten/status/1204023675026124801 …

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        Simon Whitten @Simon_Whitten
        I've noticed a lot of replies by followers of Lindsay and Boghossian claiming that the physicist they're currently harassing wrote that the theory of relativity implies epistemic relativism. Not only did she not write this, this is an old Science Wars trope from...
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      5. Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019

        For the benefit of the initiated, Dawkins' chortling at the word "privilege" is funny because he clearly thinks it's an example of gender studies intrusion into physics. In reality calling certain reference frames or speeds as "privileged" is part of the terminology of relativity

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      6. Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019

        *uninitiated.

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      7. Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019

        "the speed of light [is] privilege[d] over other speeds" is essentially Einstein's second postulate.

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      2. Simon Whitten‏ @Simon_Whitten 15 Dec 2019
        Replying to @Ilias_is_Habibi

        Appeal to ridicule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule …

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      1. Eddie Current‏ @edwardcurrent 15 Dec 2019
        Replying to @Simon_Whitten

        Ironic that biologist-turned-social-critic Dawkins is criticizing people for speaking far outside of their field of expertise.

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      1. Dr. Vincent Raoult‏ @sawsharkman 15 Dec 2019
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        I liked Dawkins more when he talked about evolution and wasn't an overt misogynist. He's doing no one any favours now, and effectively split a whole community because of it

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