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I wasn't aware there was a cult of Mary Beard: perhaps you have to be in Great Britain to be aware of it. The author certainly seems to be a paid-up member. I did recently read and enjoy SPQR .
Just because The Guardian has an article saying so, doesn't make it true. It's a propaganda rag, not a newspaper. Getting your news from multiple sources is a good thing, but exclude the extremes from all sides.
I wasn't aware there was a cult of Mary Beard: perhaps you have to be in Great Britain to be aware of it. The author certainly seems to be a paid-up member. I did recently read and enjoy SPQR .
Just because The Guardian has an article saying so, doesn't make it true. It's a propaganda rag, not a newspaper. Getting your news from multiple sources is a good thing, but exclude the extremes from all sides.
A simple question helps get things back on keel:
"Do you care about other people beyond those that directly benefit you?"
I wasn't aware there was a cult of Mary Beard: perhaps you have to be in Great Britain to be aware of it. The author certainly seems to be a paid-up member. I did recently read and enjoy SPQR .
It pays the bills I guess, but there's always something untowards about TV intellectuals. It's like getting your science news from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
When all of thay stuff between her and the black swan bloke (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) happened, I was amazed with how he sought to bully her with his opinion, how he tried to drum up hate towards her, and his utter contempt for field other than statistics. I realised then that this was exactly why she had to write 'Women and Power' etc.
I think he just called her a fraud, and honestly, I never seen him making a mistake in this regard. Here: https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge... pretty entertaining twitter thread https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816
It's also possible that there's more nuance to this than that.
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I think he just called her a fraud, and honestly, I never seen him making a mistake in this regard. Here: https://medium.com/east-med-project-history-philology-and-ge... pretty entertaining twitter thread https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816
Mary Beard is absolutely not "a fraud" just because you disagree with her view on diversity. (fwiw I also don't particularly like that tweet of hers, but come on.)
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Mary Beard is absolutely not "a fraud" just because you disagree with her view on diversity. (fwiw I also don't particularly like that tweet of hers, but come on.)
well, I guess neither of us is a member of same ethnic group as Taleb. For him that was personal
I wasn't aware there was a cult of Mary Beard: perhaps you have to be in Great Britain to be aware of it. The author certainly seems to be a paid-up member. I did recently read and enjoy SPQR .
Just because The Guardian has an article saying so, doesn't make it true. It's a propaganda rag, not a newspaper. Getting your news from multiple sources is a good thing, but exclude the extremes from all sides.
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well, I guess neither of us is a member of same ethnic group as Taleb. For him that was personal
So? That makes it okay to call a distinguished scholar a fraud? (is that a claim Taleb ever made? or just you?)
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well, I guess neither of us is a member of same ethnic group as Taleb. For him that was personal
So? That makes it okay to call a distinguished scholar a fraud? (is that a claim Taleb ever made? or just you?)
I don’t think he calls people frauds lightly.
When all of thay stuff between her and the black swan bloke (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) happened, I was amazed with how he sought to bully her with his opinion, how he tried to drum up hate towards her, and his utter contempt for field other than statistics. I realised then that this was exactly why she had to write 'Women and Power' etc.