So it appears that a certain Very Eminent Rising Star in Oncology (VERSO) is still dropping snide comments about how countering alt med and antivaccine pseudoscience is a worthless waste of time and too easy to be worth the effort of his massive brain and talents. 1/
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There was a time when I thought that way a bit too, but I eventually learned that high intensity of response to criticism is not a reliable indication that the criticism was valid. Yet this VERSO equates the two, and is very self-satisfied. 3/
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Here's the problem. A high intensity angry response to criticism COULD mean that the criticism was devastatingly spot on and hit home. That must be conceded. However, it could ALSO mean that the criticism was way off base, offensive, and insulting. 4/
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Here's the second problem. You can't tell the difference, at least not easily. The difference isn't obvious between a high intensity angry response to valid criticism that hit very close to home versus brain dead off-base criticism that was offensive and insulting. 5/
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The humble, when confronted with a violent backlash to his criticism of someone or something, will engage in a bit of self-reflection and ask himself: Was this backlash because I was so very, very right, or was it because I was so very insultingly wrong? 6/
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The arrogant, of course, will automatically and instantly conclude that the backlash was because he was so devastatingly correct, with zero self-reflection,. He will often express great satisfaction over the reaction to the point of gloating about it. 7/
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I learned this lesson—eventually. Perhaps VERSO can too one day. He is young. Or, if he learns of this little Twitter thread, he can view it with great satisfaction as one more indication of how very, very brilliant and correct he was. Which will he choose? I fear I know. 8/8
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Thanks to an old favorite
@cuttlefishpoet for saying it even better than I could have!https://freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish/2015/02/17/how-i-know-im-right/ …Show this thread
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I mean, three days in and he’s retweeting and commenting too. Is smugness less indicative of being wrong than anger? I forget how their pyramid of evidence looks.
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I see he's also insinuating that he's also going to talk about the issue on his podcast next week. Oh, goody
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