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Whether or not this is the case, an ad hominem attack against the race of the authors and a strawman that presents their method as a cake recipe only convinces

by bsza 2y ago

Whether or not this is the case, an ad hominem attack against the race of the authors and a strawman that presents their method as a cake recipe only convinces me about the reviewer being an asshole. One could turn the proof of the Pythagorean theorem into a cake recipe in a way that makes it sound ridiculous and unscientific.

xandrius 2y ago
What does that have anything to do with race? I don't really get it.
- bsza 2y ago
  The linked writing takes an inventory of the sex and skin color of the authors and voices concerns about the lack of diversity thereof.
  - buovjaga 2y ago
    Not the authors of the phylogenetic analysis paper, but the creators and editors of Aarne–Thompson–Uther index of folktales.