Saturday, July 27, 2019
Not necessarily fun
I wrote a comment at UncommonDescent. Repeating it here and expanding a bit.
A professor wrote several total nonsense papers and submitted them to "social" "science" journals. The nonsense was published without demur, because "social" "science" is a crazed cult that can't begin to distinguish between truth and lies. Anything that ticks the currently fashionable boxes is automatically TRUTH.
The prof has been punished, and UD was sad about the punishment.
Maybe we shouldn't be sad.
It's fun to feed nonsense to a crazed cult and watch the cult eagerly consume the nonsense.
BUT: This particular crazed cult is blindly obeyed by governments and corporations and "protest" movements. Those followers will make laws and destroy careers based on the hoax info, BECAUSE they are crazed cultists who can't distinguish truth from lies.
The hoax info will thus increase the damage done by the cult.
This hoaxer probably didn't intend to increase the damage, but intention is irrelevant. A real criminal would love to feed false info into an automatic killing machine so the machine would grind up his favorite targets. He wouldn't act like a criminal; he'd act like a hoaxer who is having fun.
Mobsters often use the machinery of the police for this exact purpose. Arrange a SWAT raid on your competitor.
Labels: From rights to duties
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