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by tomlock 8y ago
Great: > I think you are assuming that the graduates of grevience [sic] studies have some sort of loyalty to their old professors. My personal experience is they don't. Dismissed due to lack of expertise. > They know a degree in
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by tomlock 8y ago
It isn't so impressive or surprising if you observe that a KGB man is in charge of Russia and the three letter agencies in America tasked with countering him have been tied up with other tasks since the the eleventh of september 2001 f
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So at the time you and your colleagues chose to defer to experts in those fields, but currently you assume you are an expert in the content and character of the fields. What changed?
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by tomlock 8y ago
It doesn't demonstrate anything that isn't entirely comparable to the replication crisis, which stretches across many, many fields and many journals that the authors would almost certainly not call "grievance studies". I
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That last example is beautiful. Imagine someone in court saying "I am not strong enough to do thing x, which is easier than thing y". It sounds like in this case the judge's (your) response is "but you did y". I h
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by tomlock 8y ago
Oh so multiple people were not experts in the subjects. Cool. Also isn't it strange that while administrations are supposedly stuffed with these "grievance studies" people - not one person on your board was qualified to prop
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by tomlock 8y ago
Sure, but to claim that a group looking to push an agenda, a group that wields, in the right-wing imagination, inordinate power, can't even increase recruitment into their ranks, seems counter-intuitive.
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by tomlock 8y ago
What's amazing is that you can scratch your head when confronted by the thesis proposal of someone who just got out of honours/masters in a field but simultaneously anoint yourself an expert in that field.
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by tomlock 8y ago
It is a super interesting jurisprudential question, because legal systems are typically objective in part, but also rely on some idea of what a "reasonable person" would consider factual or reasonable. It stands to reason then, t
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by tomlock 8y ago
So you sat on a panel with no experts in a particular field, and so deferred to experts from that field, and also had bad experiences with university administrators, and this lead you to believe you were an expert in the field where you def
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by tomlock 8y ago
I'd be interested to hear more about this - but in the past its certainly true that indigenous myths were seen as useless to science. There are several examples of natural events and disasters being correlated with myths retold in ind
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> The hoax authors have emphatically claimed that this field is more akin to theology than any kind of meaningful science, where any paper that reinforces the orthodoxy gets published, no matter the methodological flaws, and that's
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Ok, and ok.
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I think you're assuming that your personal experience is representative and unbiased. Is there a particular reason you'd consider yourself an expert on "grievance studies"? Is there a comprehensive list of areas of stu
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by tomlock 8y ago
Yeah, this paper just lead to name-calling, which I think indicates that it was not out to really do anything, but to appeal to certain narratives. Additionally, its main demonstration is that bad papers can be accepted by journals, which
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by tomlock 8y ago
1. The information you seek... is found in the first Google result. 2. Counter-question: Is it possible to simultaneously hold a post-graduate degree, and be studying one?
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by tomlock 8y ago
Ok so they simultaneously have an inordinate effect on other disciplines, like science, but can't hold it together enough to keep their own boat afloat?
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Interestingly the field that talks most about epistemology and different epistemologies, is philosophy, which I'm pretty sure is part of the "grievance studies" bloc the authors wish to push a narrative about. It is absolute
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by tomlock 8y ago
> And I think here it's the only possible one. > Can you seriously imagine the journal accepting an article even slightly negative about the field? There are plenty of critiques of these disciplines that come from within. For pe
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> They were trying to demonstrate that this field uses no rigourous empirical methods, and that the reviewers and editors apparently have no knowledge or understanding of how to check for bias or even validate empirical data that's
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by tomlock 8y ago
So you feel like these people control the university administrations, while their fields drop in importance, funding and staffing?
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> The graduates from these areas tend to infect the university administration and wear down the other areas with guerrilla tactics of increasing wokeness. So you believe that while these departments have shrinking budgets, are the subjec
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by tomlock 8y ago
> The rules are not being applied out of a sense of ethical obligation, but rather to punish Boghossian for his views and for causing offense to other academics. This seems like a bit of a leap. What evidence is there for this being the
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by tomlock 8y ago
As someone who has been involved in academia and left-wing activism since the 00's, student politics has at least since then been an extremist cesspool, and looking back through history, it seems that plenty of vicious protests and mov
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> which is corrupting academic research Considering this paper was presumably hoping to bring about better standards in academia, how is this claim supported by the hoax AKA experiment?
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> Their goal, they wrote, was to "to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research." They contend that scholarship that tends to social grievances now dominates some field
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There are literally arms of the government in China that wish to silence other opinions. If Altman feels comfortable in China it is only because he is divorced from the context there.
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I find it hard to take Altman seriously as a well-reasoned thinker after his comments on political correctness which were intermeshed with him praising China's approach to the topic.
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I am similarly pointing out something that exists, the falling life expectancy in America. I am also pointing out that patents are not a good metric for healthcare success, whether or not the OP intended that it be used that way. I'm
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I think it is also worth noting that number of drugs patented is not necessarily the best metric for measuring healthcare success. I think one of the best is perhaps life expectancy - and that's dropping in America, patents or no.

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