A little mini-thread about the grievance studies hoax, responding to concerns from @ConceptualJames that the emphasis of my initial set of responses may have been in someway misplacedhttps://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1056611677251272706 …
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If you'd like to do a Skype conversation with me sometime where we talk about this stuff in proper detail, I'd be very happy to do that. I unfortunately can't spend much more time on Twitter today because I've got some pressing deadlines. Let me know if you'd like to do a chat?
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I think I have made the claims we are and are not making clearer now? If not, have a look at the discussion bit of the Areo piece where we talk about what it can be said to show and cannot be said to show.
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I don't doubt this. I don't know it to be true either. I do know that showing a problem to exist in my own area of study should not be taken as a claim that no other types of problems exist in any other studies but that's what this keeps getting derailed to.
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It's not that u claimed that "no other types of problems exist in any other studies." It's rather that the way u & ur co-authors framed much discussion of ur hoax (that I read) was there was a *special* problem, i.e., compared to other fields. But ur hoax doesn't show *that.*
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I still don't know what you're talking about. This is tautological. We are claiming that there is a special epistemological & ethical problem with using certain kinds of theory and then we looked at journals from various fields which did use it & got them to publish the problems
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Critical theory rooted in postmodernism is a special problem. It can only be tested where it exists. If we tried to send a Butlerian argument about the construction of masculinity to a physics journal, they'd say it was out of scope & refer us to journals which used Butler.
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In the same way, someone wanting to show that some bad ideas about dietary fat are being perpetuated to harmful effect, this is a special problem within a specialty. They'd have to send to journals which covered dietary fat & not to journals which didn't. Why isn't this clear?
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If we'd said "Only gender studies use this theory," we'd need to have a control but we didn't limit in that way. We sent papers to the top journals we could find who were open to this kind of theoretical work. That's why we have one in geography.
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