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I stopped reading and started skimming at the complaint that DePalma dresses like Indiana Jones. Good. It would behoove many professions to dress well again. I
by blfr 8y ago
I stopped reading and started skimming at the complaint that DePalma dresses like Indiana Jones. Good. It would behoove many professions to dress well again. I hope this age of slob ends soon.
And what's with the indigenous people non-sequitur? There were no people, indigenous or elsewhere, 60 million years ago.
- ngcc_hk 8y agoI think they should have a bit of fun among themselves even if just how one dress. I did note one of the girls dressed d. park in one of the news. So be her. Enjoy.
- edoloughlin 8y agoI stopped reading and started skimming at the complaint that DePalma dresses like Indiana Jones That's a shame, it's actually a good article. However, how would you dress if you had to spend hours a day on your belly under the desert sun? Perhaps it's just a practical way to dress and the journalist was just exercising some artistic license?
- ggsp 8y agoI think they are saying that they stopped reading the Twitter posts, not the article.
- fhars 8y agoAnd the twitter thread is what is good and should be read. The piece in the NewYorker makes it look like DePalma's work makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the extinction of the dinosaurs, while the twitter thread (and https://twitter.com/SteveBrusatte/status/1111669545285107714 https://twitter.com/SteveBrusatte/status/1111669545285107714 cited therein) point out that the actual paper published about the discovery doesn't even mention dinosaours and that DePalma is just acting as "a pulp novel caricature of a paleontologist" following the established script of "Go to the press, get your fame, let the academics argue while the public goes 'Wowwww'". All the while violating the embargo on the paper.
- minecrafter6561 8y ago>the actual paper published about the discovery the "actual" paper hasn't been published yet, if you read the article you would see that most of the details have been secret. also this article does mention dinosaurs on two accounts, perhaps the first feathers ever found at hell's creater were found at this digsite as well as the hipbone of another dinosaur
- mcguire 8y agoIf science by press release is bad, how is science by Twitter better?
- Fomite 8y agoTwitter is discussing things, not making a sensational PR claim.
- fhars 8y agoThe complaint in that tweet was not in itself about the clothing style, but about DePalma's whole public behaviour that clearly tries to put media impact above scientific method. You are being intellectually lazy and superficial by not reading the whole tweet and just discarding the argument at the first instant you see something that grates you if taken out of context.
- Spooky23 8y agoIn the context of dinosaurs, that’s a ludicrous argument. The entire field was born of the hype and public thirst for information on the topic. We’ll see what the facts are as the story develops, but the griping sounds like angry old people wielding their positional power.
- valesco 8y agoI agree, this thread is a sad read. And the indigenous argument is like the asteroid, coming from nowhere.