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    2. Binary Babe  🧙‍♀️‏ @DimorphicDiva 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @graceelavery

      The haters are just too dumb to understand her intellectpic.twitter.com/gXAUV5jJYZ

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    3. Mlle Defarge‏ @hearing_girl 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @DimorphicDiva @graceelavery

      oh no, subordinate clauses. Like, look, is it a worthwhile goal to make academic communication more accessible outside of its own subfield? Hell yes. Is this a noteworthy or unique example of work that does not do that? Meh, not really.

      3 replies 0 retweets 33 likes
    4. Binary Babe  🧙‍♀️‏ @DimorphicDiva 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      Great point. As a scientist, I wouldn't be comfortable recommending Stephen Hawkins' books to any non-scientist. The mark of an intellectual is to be able to explain their ideas in a straightforward way.

      6 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @DimorphicDiva @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      Popularizing a topic for a lay audience is a completely different skillset from actually doing work in the field Some gifted people are able to do both, but there are many who specialize in one and don't bother much with the other There's nothing wrong with that

      3 replies 3 retweets 59 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      Particularly when it comes to "sexy" topics like cosmology, it's very common for scientists in the field to complain that popularizers, even popularizers who do know what they're talking about, find it necessary to speak in simplified metaphors that spawn misconceptions

      1 reply 2 retweets 33 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      Most wouldn't go so far as to say it shouldn't be done at all, but people who have "a little knowledge" can be very dangerous, and the idea that simplified lay explainers on quantum physics or immunology or whatever are the same as studying the topic are part of the problem

      1 reply 3 retweets 31 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      I like Stephen Hawking's books, but they are not in fact as easy to understand as some people think they are, as evidenced by the fact that a lot of his fans *don't* understand what he was saying and say blatantly wrong things based on it

      1 reply 1 retweet 33 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      More importantly, they do not accurately reflect his work as a scientist They are a project he undertook in their own right They do not at all prepare you to read an actual journal article from the field and understand the daily work of a physicist

      1 reply 2 retweets 27 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      The average fan of A Brief History of Time would find the average article from an actual astrophysics journal incomprehensible And that's not a reflection on the journal article's authors being stupid or not really knowing what they're talking about

      2 replies 2 retweets 37 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

      In any case, this is completely misplaced as a dunk on Butler Butler's writing in Gender Trouble is not the result of her being unable to express herself clearly in simple language, as evidenced by the fact her New Statesman interview was completely different in style and tone

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

          It is a very, very odd kind of criticism to say that someone's very clearly and simply laid out opinions in an interview in the popular press must be worthless because, thirty years ago, they wrote a book you find uses too many big words

          1 reply 4 retweets 35 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

          Even if I accepted all your assumptions as true, it's been thirty fucking years Maybe she became a better writer in that time What does that have to do with criticizing her now

          0 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
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        1. BlackHumor 🏴‏ @BlackHumor712 24 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @hearing_girl @graceelavery

          ...but it is a result of her being unwilling to, and the reasons for that should be questioned because they say some pretty bad things about academia. (And yes I do include STEM academia in this.)

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