This seems to be happening to lots of academics. Weird time not to be verifying them. No category for “academic”.https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1402768648578625536 …
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It’s like the rich saying, no, no the money doesn’t matter. It does if you don’t have it, and so do titles and credentials if you get treated like an idiot and/or subhuman by default by a sizable group. That’s not “grasping”, more like trying to survive.
I think framing a blue checkmark on the outrage site as a survival issue is taking it too far.
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