Thread by @GidMK

I do find it fascinating how the usual "academic civility/silencing" brigade have completely ignored this whole episode. Apparently it's fine to publicly defame junior colleagues as long as it's in service of school reopening

https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1356085105094053888

It's also interesting to note that this is quite literally a case of academic "silencing", at least insofar as the journal and authors have tried their hardest to quash any hint of our critique

Without twitter, and the media attention it brought, I doubt very much that this paper would ever have been corrected. The only reason the authors were forced to respond is that the editors were contacted by the Guardian for comment

Even then, the lead author's ONLY response to us pointing out that his paper was mathematically impossible was that our critique was not peer-reviewed

Here are very powerful people - editors at one of the biggest academic journals in the world - dragging their heels and attempting to silence critics

And yet, not a peep from people who claim to care about this sort of thing regularly

Odd, that