Thread by @garwboy

OK, so what I learned from doing this thread is that when I tweet stuff, some people might actually read it. I should really keep that in mind in future

https://twitter.com/garwboy/status/1352648404980162566

FWIW though, my thread was never meant as an all-out condemnation of the Guardian. Yeah, they really ballsed up here, but you know what? I still got my rebuttal published, and nobody else was giving a random Welsh science nerd clown his own blog on a major platform

/1

Yeah, Hari had (has?) a lot of had/defenders there, but they were definitely in the minority. That they wielded enough clout to promote his dangerous conclusions is very bad, and needed to be called out, hence I did. But most there were were very much on my side

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The fact that all this guff happened anyway and there was little public pushback, yeah, *that's* a big concern. But Hari's chummy network extends well beyond the Guardian, as I've experienced directly since. And I still owe them big for all they've done for me

/3

Thing is, when you have a favourable view of something, that's when you should be *more* diligent of pushing back when it goes awry. That's sort of my whole point

People using my thread to justify a pre-existing hatred of all things Guardian, I don't agree with that

/4

In summary; Twitter isn't the best place for nuanced critique of an important issue.

If only people had told me this several thousand times before now.

/end