She sucks when overextendeding her aura of expertise to domains she’s not good in (eg metaphysics and esp pan-psychism which she profoundly misunderstands yet self-assuredly talked about). Her criticism of academia is good, but she reproduces some of that nonsense herself.
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Comment105@lemm.ee 6 days agoPeople shit on Hossenfelder but she has a point. Academia partially brought this on themselves.
camilledockham@jlai.lu 6 days ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 days ago
As someone who just looked at the Wikipedia article, I too am an expert in this field, unironically, because it’s woo woo nonsense.
camilledockham@jlai.lu 6 days ago
Can you explain how you reached that conclusion? Since you’re a rigorous thinker, no doubt it would be trivial for you.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 days ago
Aristotle believed in it too, along with the four humors and classical elements.
Doesn’t make his thoughts on rhetoric irrelevant, but those also don’t make his mystical solutions to problems he didn’t have the tools to solve correct.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
People shit on Hossenfelder but she has a point. Academia partially brought this on themselves.
Somehow I briefly got her and Pluckrose reversed in my mind, and was still kinda nodding along.
If you don’t know who I mean, Pluckrose and two others produced a bunch of hoax papers (likening themselves to the Sokal affair) of which 4 were published and 3 were accepted but hadn’t been published, 4 were told to revise and resubmit and one was under review at the point they were revealed. 9 were rejected, a bit less than half the total (which included both the papers on autoethnography). The idea was to float papers that were either absurd or kinda horrible like a study supporting reducing homophobia and transphobia in straight cis men by pegging them (was published in Sexuality & Culture) or one that was just a rewrite of a section of Mein Kampf as a feminist text (was accepted by Affilia but not yet published when the hoax was revealed).
My personal favorite of the accepted papers was “When the Joke Is on You: A Feminist Perspective on How Positionality Influences Satire” just because of how ballsy it is to spell out what you are doing so obviously in the title. It was accepted by Hypatia but hadn’t been published yet when the hoax was revealed.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Hossenfelder is fine but tries to educate way outside her realm. Her cryptocurrency episode made me lose all respect for her.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
People shit in Hossenfelder much more for her non-academic takes.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Her video on trans issues has made it very difficult to take her seriously as a thinker. The same types of manipulative half truths and tropes I see from TERFs pretending they have the “reasonable” view, while also spreading the hysteric media narrative about the kids getting transed.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I didn’t even see that. Just a few clips of her rants about other things she confidently knows nothing about, like a less incoherent Jordan Peterson.