Co-sign.
I'd argue Alice Dreger bears some blame.
Because I'm of an organizing mind today, I'll thread some of my own tweets on the issue. 1/
I'd argue Alice Dreger bears some blame.
Because I'm of an organizing mind today, I'll thread some of my own tweets on the issue. 1/
This thread points out how ignorance of or unwillingness to engage with current scholarship gets interpreted by its authors as a faux-heroic Galileo-like stance. Scroll up! 2/
The strange insistence on a debate model of making research knowledge sometimes comes with self-important referencing of Galileo, too. A concise tweet of my disagreement. 3/
Remember the evo psych authors who trolled their social psych colleagues, sending them a silly survey and arguing their findings showed it's evolution that keeps social psych peeps from grasping evo psych? Galileo was in that paper! Scroll up & down. 4/
Last, a take-down article about #Quillette's pushing of scientific racism is a good place to include a mockery of the Maybe-I-Am-Galileo stance. 5/
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