If you can't see how the dog-humping paper is ridiculous, you're part of the problem.https://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1056627434211213314 …
The 3 things u said I indicated were not things I indicated. I’ve tried 2 discuss a specific issue re methodology; I’ve also repeatedly said I saw certain problems in gender studies etc. I *also* said that I think ur appraisal of those fields could have been more charitable
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I'm charitable in the sense that I accept that they're probably trying to do good and believe what they're saying. We've said this repeatedly. That is what charitable means. We have epistemological and ethical disagreements which I have set out and argued for.
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I see being charitable as actually trying to see the value in what someone is doing even if you don’t agree with all or even most of their conclusions or methods, not saying “I believe they are sincere, yet deluded”
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It's not like they just blindly assumed the epistemology in some of these fields lacks objective value. They suspected it, then they became experts in the relevant fields to the degree that they got 7 papers accepted in reputable journals before making this claim.
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Maybe you should try aiming some of the charity you're advocating to this project.
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If you read my original string of tweets, you will see that a good proportion of them are devoted to saying the things about which I agree with the authors and the aspects of their hoax I saw as relatively good potential evidence of a special problem in the target fields
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Assuming they haven't charitably assessed these fields given the just jaw-dropping amount of objective work (which was so rigorous, they were actually praised by many reviewers in the fields) they've put into studying them just doesn't seem super charitable to me.
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What is so infuriating is that we did put so many hours into this every week for a year, especially James, and then spent more hours trying to explain it & putting everything out there and since then, we've been fielding constant quick, hot & uninformed takes on the significance
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Tell ya what, I'll volunteer my time to write an insane grievance studies paper in Brian's name, with his permission and help, and we'll see how it goes. What do you say, Brian?
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