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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 3

    Is there any idea so outlandish that it won't be published in a Critical/PoMo/Identity/"Theory" journal? Helen Plucrose et al. submitted a dozen hoax papers to find out. https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ … via @areomagazine

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      2. 𝕄𝕒𝕥𝕥 𝔾𝕒𝔹𝔼𝕃𝕀𝔸𝕃 😈‏Verified account @prof_gabriele Oct 3
        Replying to @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        yeah, it's almost like any hack can publish a book on the Enlightenment or on Violence in History without knowing anything about it! https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1232 …

        10 replies 24 retweets 462 likes
      3. Victor Rivera  🇵🇷 👻 🎃 👹‏ @cognitivicta Oct 3
        Replying to @prof_gabriele @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        It’s almost like you linked to an article where Pinker owns the reviewer, Zing! @matthewasearspic.twitter.com/QUDA9OAPV6

        4 replies 3 retweets 45 likes
      4. Kierkegaarden Cop‏ @joshsteich Oct 3
        Replying to @cognitivicta @prof_gabriele and

        LOL, nope. If you think that Pinker owns Ziemann, you're probably a Pinker fanboy. Ferex, Pinker responds that Ziemann's complaints about Elias are immaterial as Pinker provides quant neuro args; Ziemann was pointing out reliance on Elias's shoddy history, not Freudianisms.

        0 replies 0 retweets 56 likes
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      2. Will 🦕Menaker‏ @willmenaker Oct 3
        Replying to @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        i'd like to see an academic paper about how and why you were on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane

        19 replies 68 retweets 1,090 likes
      3. Eoin Hauntins  🏚️ 👻‏Verified account @EoinHiggins_ Oct 3
        Replying to @willmenaker @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        I got a feeling this an Occam's Razor situation tbh

        2 replies 0 retweets 65 likes
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      2. Eric Lybeck‏ @EricRoyalLybeck Oct 3
        Replying to @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        Submitted a dozen papers - 3 accepted in minor journals. 6 rejected, demonstrating peer review works (even amongst PoMo 'Theory' crowd) and another 3 must have just been ignored. Hardly an indictment of academia, rather a few editors in niche sub-fields likely in decline anyway

        3 replies 1 retweet 96 likes
      3. Benjamin 2spooky Farrand‏ @benjaminfarrand Oct 3
        Replying to @EricRoyalLybeck @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        You should read some of the trash they print. It’s anti-leftism dancing around as ‘liberalism’.

        1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
      4. Eric Lybeck‏ @EricRoyalLybeck Oct 3
        Replying to @benjaminfarrand @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        My impression is that 'liberalism' increasingly is just pathetic, whiny men dancing around as 'rational' intellectuals when they don't even know how to properly generalise from a scant amount of evidence. Like, this is three papers in an experiment that otherwise failed.

        4 replies 0 retweets 31 likes
      5. Eric Lybeck‏ @EricRoyalLybeck Oct 3
        Replying to @EricRoyalLybeck @benjaminfarrand and

        I mean, they genuinely think they've 'SLAMMED' postmodernism. Don't they. Has anyone even met a card-carrying postmodernist since like 2005? What's next you gonna 'prove' once and for all that mullets are out of fashion?pic.twitter.com/g8G1B0VydA

        3 replies 1 retweet 27 likes
      6. Benjamin 2spooky Farrand‏ @benjaminfarrand Oct 3
        Replying to @EricRoyalLybeck @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        Well, their attitudes don’t seem to have moved on since the 1970s, maybe they think theory is still in the same decade they are.

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      7. Eric Lybeck‏ @EricRoyalLybeck Oct 3
        Replying to @benjaminfarrand @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        What they think they look like.pic.twitter.com/iDagEBJh92

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      8. Eric Lybeck‏ @EricRoyalLybeck Oct 3
        Replying to @EricRoyalLybeck @benjaminfarrand and

        What they actually look likepic.twitter.com/YieLdLJgnA

        0 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
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      2. Saeen‏ @_Saeen_ Oct 3
        Replying to @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        Saeen Retweeted  ☀️ 👀

        yeah, imagine someone promoting crazy theories in academia. you would never approve of someone like that, will you?https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/997575537089564672 …

        Saeen added,

        1:39
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        lmao Jordan Peterson actually believes the DNA double helix, discovered in 1953, is depicted in ancient Chinese, Aboriginal and Egyptian art (h/t @Lafargue & @OwenOver) pic.twitter.com/LkSPRrbsND
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        11 replies 15 retweets 268 likes
      3. Free Palestine #Mockchain‏ @SamPepper1965 Oct 3
        Replying to @_Saeen_ @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        Or imagine if Harvard economists published a study that conservatives used to justify austerity worldwide that was based on cherry-picked data and wrong.https://www.minnpost.com/macro-micro-minnesota/2013/05/reinhart-rogoff-economic-study-got-it-wrong-and-so-did-political-react/ …

        0 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Benny very scarefully‏ @Benny_Carefully Oct 3
        Replying to @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        not sure but i definitely know of some publishers who will publish outlandish claims such as "the rising value of one US dollar means that poverty is over"

        3 replies 1 retweet 144 likes
      3. Vectoor‏ @Vectoor Oct 3
        Replying to @Benny_Carefully @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        I thought you guys were claiming "extreme poverty is dropping like a rock" was wrong because of inflation? Now it's the rising value of the dollar? Can't you be at least consistently wrong?

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. Benny very scarefully‏ @Benny_Carefully Oct 3
        Replying to @Vectoor @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        no but we can be consistently right

        1 reply 0 retweets 24 likes
      5. Vectoor‏ @Vectoor Oct 4
        Replying to @Benny_Carefully @sapinker @AreoMagazine

        Maybe I'm missing something but inflation and the rising value of the dollar are fundamentally different things.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Vectoor‏ @Vectoor Oct 5
        Replying to @Vectoor @Benny_Carefully and

        Huh, this guy actually deleted his tweets after that, so he did get inflation backwards...

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. End of conversation

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