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The top article on that site at the moment is about the "Jewish elite". WTF? http://www.science20.com/sascha_vongehr/scientists_for_donald_trump_not_scientists

The top article on that site at the moment is about the "Jewish elite". WTF? http://www.science20.com/sascha_vongehr/scientists_for_donald_trump_not_scientists_against_donald_trump-224869 http://www.science20.com/sascha_vongehr/scientists_for_donal...

dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y ago
It's clearly a right-wing site. Or at least they seem to rant against "leftist" scientists. http://www.science20.com/kevin_m_folta/the_scicomm_challenge_communicating_concepts_in_climate_change-224865 http://www.science20.com/kevin_m_folta/the_scicomm_challenge...
- drdeca 10y ago
  I wouldn't think being "right wing" would be sufficient to explain using the phrase "jewish elite". Like, can we not treat "the people who say things like 'jewish elite' " and "people who are right wing" as being the same group? I mean, I'm not saying they don't have an overlap ( It is probably true that P(a person is right wing | they say stuff about "the jewish elite") > P(the person is right wing) ), but I'm concerned about the social incentives that might be created/contributed-to if they are treated as if they are the same.
  - dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y ago
    Ahh, you're completely right, it's a lazy phrasing.
- fennecfoxen 10y ago
  > It's clearly a right-wing site. ... It's clearly a collaborative site with hundreds of authors, at least two of whom are right-wing authors, who have presumably got to the top being controversial and attracting attention from outside the normally quiescent community of readers talking about entropic gravity, thus convincing the algorithms their content is worth showcasing. HERETICS, THE LOT OF THEM! BURN THE DATA CENTER WITH FIRE!!!
badloginagain 10y ago
Kind of terrifying since I just read this article on the targeting of specific groups: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/what-things-going-wrong-can-look-like-400f84a0cc3a#.8mx161amc https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/what-things-going-wrong-ca...
- hackuser 10y ago
  Interesting. Why does that author claim to have knowledge or expertise? I looked at his bio but didn't learn much about him.

dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y ago

It's clearly a right-wing site. Or at least they seem to rant against "leftist" scientists. http://www.science20.com/kevin_m_folta/the_scicomm_challenge_communicating_concepts_in_climate_change-224865 http://www.science20.com/kevin_m_folta/the_scicomm_challenge...

drdeca 10y ago
I wouldn't think being "right wing" would be sufficient to explain using the phrase "jewish elite". Like, can we not treat "the people who say things like 'jewish elite' " and "people who are right wing" as being the same group? I mean, I'm not saying they don't have an overlap ( It is probably true that P(a person is right wing | they say stuff about "the jewish elite") > P(the person is right wing) ), but I'm concerned about the social incentives that might be created/contributed-to if they are treated as if they are the same.
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y ago
  Ahh, you're completely right, it's a lazy phrasing.
fennecfoxen 10y ago
> It's clearly a right-wing site. ... It's clearly a collaborative site with hundreds of authors, at least two of whom are right-wing authors, who have presumably got to the top being controversial and attracting attention from outside the normally quiescent community of readers talking about entropic gravity, thus convincing the algorithms their content is worth showcasing. HERETICS, THE LOT OF THEM! BURN THE DATA CENTER WITH FIRE!!!

badloginagain 10y ago

Kind of terrifying since I just read this article on the targeting of specific groups: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/what-things-going-wrong-can-look-like-400f84a0cc3a#.8mx161amc https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/what-things-going-wrong-ca...

hackuser 10y ago
Interesting. Why does that author claim to have knowledge or expertise? I looked at his bio but didn't learn much about him.