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#OpenScience (OS) is not a club. You cannot be admitted to or expelled from it. 1/14https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/876905959830040576 …
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I never said you called for expelling people. I realise it may have seemed that way b/c I quoted you in that tweet, but I simply did that >
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> to make it explicit that this was what sparked my thread. My first tweet is one of my premises for refuting your conclusions, but I was >
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> agnostic about your position on this specifically.
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And that this association has already been damaging in the past where sadly people defended him instead of calling him out.
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Exactly like you say, it's extremely important to not allow OA (even if you're uncomfortable with community to describe it) to be associated
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I think this is really the issue (and that goes way beyond racism, sexism etc). A lot of people are skeptical of open science...
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We shouldn't treat it as a "movement" as this only makes it seem more elitist which is really the antithesis of what it ought to be...
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But at the same time there are some who make it seem elitist & unforgiving to many people who are used to the status quo. It's not helping.
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That said, I don't see a special responsibility of OS advocates to condemn this guy. Every decent person should condemn racists.
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Both are true. K specifically uses OA to give him credibility. So if we want OA to be welcoming we should not defend him (occured in past) &
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instead we should call him out.
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s, undermining slightly the point. The reason it needs to be addressed = Kierkegaard claims to be in our movement.