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Am genuinely shocked you could say something so crass

Because Mr Cohen, you're an imbecile. She went SOLELY after my credentials, I put mine in perspective to hers. Imbecile.

I never realised what a preening popinjay you were. Still we live and learn

NonKapish. Are you trying to convince me, Mr Cohen, that you are not stupid?

What would be the point of that? Ne respondeas stulto iuxta stultitiam suam ne efficiaris ei similis - as Ms Beard would doubtless say

Imbecile, I said is insulted in language for imbeciles. And don't try to fuck with me in Ancient languages.https://twitter.com/TalebBot/status/659068515031232512 …

Grumpy old man Smartphone Internet Connection Psycatriac medication Insult people like a teenager on twitter, therapeutic.

Psychiatric* And to be fair, I enjoy and admire Nassim's work(Books), but he needs a break, he is self denigrating his own persona.

So you've 1) given arguments to far-right trolls 2) sent harassment against a respected scholar 3) failed to answer the original question

A problem with Twitter: your late reply mean that everyone's forgotten what you're referring to, & the gif/memes could mean anything. Sorry!

Unless they can scroll up, of course.

And with this petty comment, Taleb's book disappears from my bookshelf into the recycling bin. Can't be doing with snide bullies

So Taleb's books are so good they even know when to disappear from whiny people's bookshelves.

Seems rather ironic given that you have repeatedly and conspicuously neglected Prof. Beard's academic title. I enjoyed SPQR.

AFAICS the claim does not appear to be factually correct according to Google scholar. Laughter in Ancient Rome was very good as well.

I appear to have been blocked by @nntaleb, draw your own conclusions!

I'm hugely amused that I've unwittingly been the eye in this particular twitterstorm. I respect them both.

I see nothing amusing. "two cultures" arrogance decidedly vieux chapeau, does not create good impression of STEM subjects.

Well, as the one unwittingly at the eye of the storm I was amused. But I don't understand the rest of your tweet, sorry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures … is old hat. Sciences looking down on humanities (and vice-versa) tedious and only reinforces existing ignorance.

Oh the 2 cultures, yes, CPSnow, I know that. It was the French (?) & stem I didn't know. Obvs I could Google when I get home but not now