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That's an excellent point that reminds me of the article that was recently on Hacker News: Our Culture of Contempt. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/
by leereeves 8y ago
That's an excellent point that reminds me of the article that was recently on Hacker News: Our Culture of Contempt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-polarization.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-...
He could have handled this more professionally. But at the risk of committing a "motive attribution error" myself, it seems clear that that standard is being selectively applied; even the CERN staff who filmed a fake human sacrifice and released the video to the public were never publicly outted.
If Strumia were wrong, he would be no threat. He'd just be ignored or disproven. He's dangerous because he's speaking an inconvenient truth, and thus a real threat to certain people's agenda, and so he must be silenced and publicly excoriated, pour encourager les autres.
- cbx101 8y agoThe general problem is that in academia the administrations are too large and staffed with the wrong people who have to fight these battles in order to justify their existence. Human groups always degrade into Animal Farm (obviously with varying degrees of severity), where a caste of administrators rules the productive class.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoNo, it is the insulting of named members of the selection comitte that didn’t hire him that is almost the entirety of the problem.
- leereeves 8y agoYour theory is that the whole reason for firing him was that he insulted CERN management? That's an interesting theory, but it certainly makes the CERN management look petty.