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Ah yes, because the best way to get groups to not spout misleading rhetoric is to unabashedly bias the publications in the other direction. Giving validity to
by kromem 4y ago
Ah yes, because the best way to get groups to not spout misleading rhetoric is to unabashedly bias the publications in the other direction.
Giving validity to the claim that a particular perspective is being actively suppressed historically works out great in reducing that viewpoint...
Maybe they'd be better off restricting publishing to studies reproducing earlier results or meta-analysis, encouraging more rigorous standards without legitimately adding a bias.
But if this is genuinely about reducing racist or sexist misappropriation of research to legitimize those views, this is exactly the sort of measure that is going to backfire by giving the broad lack of supporting evidence for those positions a legitimate claim of explicit censorship.
It no longer matters if there are barely any reproducible results supporting their views, as pointing out that asymmetry is rendered an argument from silence in the face of active censorship.
This is a bad idea coming from a good place.
- hikingsimulator 4y agoExtremists may use whatever they want to justify their means, but shody science can make people become radical, radicalized, and then extremists. It's a gradual change that can be enabled by many things. What the article says is not to make science, and especially the field in question, one of those triggers.
- Jensson 4y ago> but shody science can make people become radical If Nature said they won't publish shoddy science nobody would have minded.