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Hmm, scientists have their own private cancel culture: often based on tacit assumptions about the RIGHT way to do science. In the 1970s cultural anthropology a
by robwwilliams 5y ago
Hmm, scientists have their own private cancel culture: often based on tacit assumptions about the RIGHT way to do science.
In the 1970s cultural anthropology and genetics were both hotbeds of cancel culture. And the canceling attempts were vividly reciprocal. For a recent incident: see EO Wilson’s shameful post-modern “obituary” in Scientific American, or read Napoleon Changnon on the warfare among tribes of anthropologist.