@rnitsch @arteteco @peterdrake I think we probably agree on most of that. I don’t know this guy or the interactions he’s had with people and we only have one side of the story so can’t really make a judgement either way, yet we all have. It’s easy for someone to frame their position as open to critique without them really being so, something I’ve encountered a few times.
@rnitsch @arteteco @peterdrake The author clearly expected the paper to be cause controversy. The topic is controversial, and it doesn’t take much reading around to know that. What little reading I’ve done tells me the idea is far from universally accepted and quite possibly falls into the area of bias in the first place. So to cite work, which has been questioned for bias, as a basis for this paper is always going to be problematic. All, of course, just in my opinion.
@rnitsch @arteteco @peterdrake Because the politics don’t go away just because we’d like them to, means this sort of thing can happen. I suspect it was entirely avoidable.