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it is theoretically possible to read the same thing, consider + analysis it based on the best of your knowledge, weigh whether its supporting evidence is strong/weak, and come to different conclusions

this is because different people have different perspectives in life and thus have varying levels of knowledge / attitudes about different topics

    Bad think is bad

every day judgements are made that are contrary to the ones you made, and these judgements can also be valid

    But sure, dismiss this massively important moment of possible growth and change as bigoted. Let's keep things going exactly the way that they are, seems to be working well so far.

i know mr. bl00 doesn't like it when people just say the names of logical fallacies instead of actually arguing, but i do think that it's worth pointing this out as a strawman - i don't think galen thinks that "things" are perfect now / should keep on going how they are, he just doesn't think that sokal affair 2 electric boogaloo is enough to dismiss "the whole process by which these things get approved and published"

in my own personal very humble opinion i think that getting some of these papers published is embarrassing for these journals, but not an indictment of... what this is supposed to be an indictment of - it feels like another gotcha moment for those crazy academics and i don't think it's useful / productive in establishing more rigor in publishing (more useful as a shell in the internet culture war bombardment)

going further afield into my extremely unqualified and very subjective opinion, you preach far more than you practice vis-a-vis legitimately entertaining other points of view and it's disappointing to see so many intelligent people suckered into being the militia for the kind of conservatism they claim to oppose

thought daddies are the new god, rise up sheeple