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A 21st-century struggle session. “Agree with the consensus or else.”
by guscost 6y ago
A 21st-century struggle session. “Agree with the consensus or else.”
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoBingo! Vague notions of “harm” forbid anyone from doing anything. There’s rarely anything that can be said nowadays without some activist finding a reason to take offense. It’s funny when it’s the activist themselves that get cannibalized by their own Puritanical brethren.
- Crye 6y agoThis is different. This is a scientist condemning another scientist for standing on the pulpit and proselytizing to a mass of people. The cirtique by Mallory is that Levitt is using his credentials to bypass the scientific process and undermines the work of many. This is, in my opinion, something we should all condemn.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y ago> to bypass the scientific process The scientific process isn't owned by anyone. People are free to speak words; those who say otherwise are speech police. The obsession of certain people with "the harms of words" is illiberal and authoritarian. It’s in vogue to complain about the bad people that say bad things. You are authoritarian insofar as you're appealing to the authority of science, only if you think it seems reasonable.
- augustt 6y agostruggle session / getting called out for saying completely stupid shit. Potato / potato right? How will this lowly Nobel laureate ever recover. If there's anything struggle session-like about this, it's you contorting the author's respectful opinion into some kind of public flogging.