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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jan 21

    Superstar human geneticist Pardis Sabeti calls for a measured approach to scientific replication: Rigor, of course, but put a lid on the aggression & call off the social media hate mobs. https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2018/01/21/for-better-science-call-off-revolutionaries/8FFEmBAPCDW3IWYJwKF31L/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

    7:41 AM - 21 Jan 2018
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      2. Cloud Paweletz‏ @DCcloudy Jan 21
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        @jamesheathers thoughts ?

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      3.  🏴James Heathers 🏴‏ @jamesheathers Jan 21
        Replying to @DCcloudy @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Big C, how are you. Thoughts? Yes. Happily I have committed them to virtual paper long ago.https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/meet-the-new-bad-people-4922137949a1 …

        1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
      4.  🏴James Heathers 🏴‏ @jamesheathers Jan 21
        Replying to @jamesheathers @DCcloudy and

        https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/some-people-hate-open-science-this-is-what-they-think-502f1ba10b22 …

        2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      5.  🏴James Heathers 🏴‏ @jamesheathers Jan 21
        Replying to @jamesheathers @DCcloudy and

        https://medium.com/@jamesheathers/why-we-find-and-expose-bad-science-e47387a0e333 …

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      2. Frederick Guy‏ @FrederickGuy4 Jan 21
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        But the article is nonsense: it is based on a false claim that today's focus on reproducability is due to new statistical methods. But the statistial fallacies being called out have been well known for decades, sometimes taught, and routinely ignored. Shame.

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      2. Daniel Garcia‏ @dgarciaecon Jan 21
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        superstar researcher calls for non-star researchers to tone it down in their criticisms to high-impact (and perhaps dubious) research. self-serving bias anyone?

        2 replies 2 retweets 25 likes
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      2. Matt Williams‏ @matthewmatix Jan 21
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Dr Pinker, you're one of my intellectual heroes, & this response saddens me. Do you really think we should continue to treat facial feedback hypothesis, positivity ratio, ego depletion etc. as good science simply because that'd be better manners? What happened to falsifiability?

        1 reply 1 retweet 24 likes
      3. Nick Brown‏ @sTeamTraen Jan 25
        Replying to @matthewmatix @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Nick Brown Retweeted Steven Pinker

        I don't think Dr Pinker is very keen on the positivity ratio.https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/359721149170593792 …

        Nick Brown added,

        Steven PinkerVerified account @sapinker
        Alan Sokal of hoax fame (w Nick Brown & Harris Freedman) expose a silly bit of physics envy in psychology - http://bit.ly/1651IRR 
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      4. Matt Williams‏ @matthewmatix Jan 25
        Replying to @sTeamTraen @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Glad to hear it! I mentioned it because it Pardis Sabeti referred to Barbara Frederickson as a "good scientist" who has been "attacked" (presumably she means in relation to the positivity ratio stuff).

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Nick Brown‏ @sTeamTraen Jan 25
        Replying to @matthewmatix @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Most of the criticism of Dr. Fredrickson's work has been conducted in the peer-reviewed literature (American Psychologist, PNAS, PLOS ONE, Personality and Individual Differences).

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Nick Brown‏ @sTeamTraen Jan 25
        Replying to @sTeamTraen @matthewmatix and

        I'm not sure how the list of "victims" was established. The author seems to have a very extensive grasp of social psychology. Presumably there is a reason why Brian Wansink (whom Andrew Gelman has criticised many times) was not on the list.

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      1. Chris Chartier  🌏 🧠 🔬‏ @CRChartier Jan 21
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        An excellent pairing here by @jamesheathers suggested by @siminevazirehttps://medium.com/@jamesheathers/why-we-find-and-expose-bad-science-e47387a0e333 …

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      2. Paula Wright‏ @SexyIsntSexist Jan 22
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Yet feminism is corrupting evolutionary psychology. When I asked what defined the "feminist" in feminist evolutionary perspectives society FB page I was told this.pic.twitter.com/A2x2ECl0qQ

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      2. Forest Spirit‏ @EarthenBlueSky7 Jan 21
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Social sciences don't get to tell women what their "place" is.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Forest Spirit‏ @EarthenBlueSky7 Jan 21
        Replying to @EarthenBlueSky7 @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        SCIENCE is about studies, not policy. Science doesn't determine the way we build our society, it ONLY STUDIES it. Science doesn't determine what humans think about themselves.

        0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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      1. Peter Monnerjahn‏ @PeterMonnerjahn Jan 22
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Correction: Superstar human geneticist @PardisSabeti - disingenuously misrepresents @StatModeling’s criticisms as “vitriol” etc - ignores arguments for the importance of (even harsh) criticism - seems ignorant of how trying to confirm “effects” is basically pseudo-#science.

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      1. The Discourse Lover‏ @Trillburne Jan 23
        Replying to @sapinker @BostonGlobe

        Twitter superstar Trillburne calls for you to cut that damn hair

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