tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post3862144821862900007..comments2024-03-19T03:01:28.295+11:00Comments on Thinking Out Aloud: The vicious logic of equalityLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-45633625382394475892014-05-19T20:05:59.540+10:002014-05-19T20:05:59.540+10:00Well it would seem that the preceding comments ill...Well it would seem that the preceding comments illustrated the problems raised in the original post rather well.<br /><br />Not very edifying but rather instructive.<br /><br />Left and right in this regard are often just as bad as each other but with one key difference. The "right" (forgive me the broad stereotypes) often praise such behaviour as virtuous because they are fortifying a principle, defending a traditional practice or maintaining a standard (albeit their own). On the other hand the left often deny that they ever behave in such a fashion and are blind to their hypocrisy. While the right may be wrong (in some or maybe even in many things) at least they are not hypocritical in this regard anyway.<br /><br />Mind you they often find many other ways to join the dance of hypocrisy and self deceit.Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11499442996013666735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-83555301389914545052014-05-18T22:44:15.780+10:002014-05-18T22:44:15.780+10:00Typical leftist projection.Typical leftist projection.djfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448255075063582987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-42159582999350889262014-05-18T18:57:56.068+10:002014-05-18T18:57:56.068+10:00Reflexive Rightist tribalism.Reflexive Rightist tribalism.Catsidhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272218280125862151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-39377973905675032592014-05-18T17:49:11.583+10:002014-05-18T17:49:11.583+10:00Reflexive leftist wagon-circling. Still not very ...Reflexive leftist wagon-circling. Still not very interesting.djfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448255075063582987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-35408238016724309802014-05-18T13:22:50.349+10:002014-05-18T13:22:50.349+10:00Because it's an evident dogwhistle conflating ...Because it's an evident dogwhistle conflating "equality" (or, at least, a warped, distorted and barely recognisable strawman caricature of the concept, standing in for the entire political Left) with an inevitable decline into <i>Elysium</i> and/or North Korea and/or Cuba. It's an "argument" (if something that a tenth-grade debating student would get failed for can be dignified with the term) which is beneath Lorenzo, and even as rank propaganda fails the giggle test.<br /><br />Oh, and that University Student politics are a "pale and petulant heir to other people's struggles". I look forward to Lorenzo calling for the closing down of every single branch of the Young Liberals post haste.Catsidhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272218280125862151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-78593778261859995912014-05-18T12:56:12.981+10:002014-05-18T12:56:12.981+10:00So you think the rest of the post, aside from the ...So you think the rest of the post, aside from the sentence about the climate change issue, is "petulantly ridiculous." You give no reason for this characterization. Not that you're obligated to give a reason, but without pointing out what specifically is wrong with the post, your characterization of it is not very interesting.djfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448255075063582987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-13761349685735496552014-05-18T12:49:02.506+10:002014-05-18T12:49:02.506+10:00Oh no, it was the entire rest of the post which is...Oh no, it was the entire rest of the post which is petulantly ridiculous.<br /><br />The bit about Climate Change is merely wrong.Catsidhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272218280125862151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-40583446223138706982014-05-18T11:25:58.364+10:002014-05-18T11:25:58.364+10:00The post contains exactly one sentence about the c...The post contains exactly one sentence about the climate change controversy. Even if you disagree with that sentence, I don't think that renders the entire post "petulantly ridiculous."djfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448255075063582987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-40143733238622967202014-05-18T10:01:47.582+10:002014-05-18T10:01:47.582+10:00I seriously don't understand this reply.
You ...I seriously don't understand this reply.<br /><br />You mean, "When someone submits a paper to a peer-reviewed journal and it is rejected, with clear reasons why it's not up to standard and constructive suggestions how to get something meaningful out of it anyway, then everyone's behaviour is to get on their academic high horse and demand it be published anyway, and then throw a public tantrum"?<br /><br />Or are you saying that peer reviewed journals really should publish any and all crap if it's sent to them by someone claiming that Climate Scientists Are All Wrong, even if they're wrong?Catsidhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272218280125862151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-40705025800016072502014-05-18T09:39:10.046+10:002014-05-18T09:39:10.046+10:00And that's how everyone behaves when someone g...And that's how everyone behaves when someone get up on their academic publication high horse?Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2197051945822486684.post-25814662920798744352014-05-17T18:16:20.837+10:002014-05-17T18:16:20.837+10:00Quite frankly, Lorenzo, I don't think you'...Quite frankly, Lorenzo, I don't think you've ever written anything so petulantly ridiculous.<br /><br />And the "Bengtsson Affair" was because he demanded that a peer reviewed journal publish a paper which failed peer review not because of a "vicious heretic hunt", but because it was bullshit, explicitly attempting to find a gotcha in "inconsistencies" by comparing studies which were already known not to be comparable in that way.<br /><br />Here: have a link which isn't sourced via powerlineblog: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/may/16/dispute-arises-over-rejected-climate-science-paperCatsidhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272218280125862151noreply@blogger.com