A Twitter thread weaving a story about racism in science got 44,000 likes. After people noticed incongruencies in the story, the author acknowledged to me he had copied from reddit. Then he deleted his reply, hid mine, then locked and deleted his account in short order. ...Huh. https://t.co/hbTDhGXSlj
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) September 18, 2022
Thread first reported on rdrama:
https://rdrama.net/post/105564/phdcel-discovers-one-simple-trick-to
Stuart Ritchie and others noticed his wording was suspiciously similar to a prior reddit thread:
https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1571595824672706561
Other details didn't quite seem to add up:
https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1571626850757009408
So I asked him about it all:
https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/1571627271470940162
He confirmed he copied the thread, so I said thanks and he liked it. Then I guess he realized what he'd just confirmed, because he unliked, deleted his reply, hid my reply, locked replies to his thread, locked his account, and deleted his whole twitter account renamed himself to firstname-bunchofnumbers and removed his Twitter bio. In that order.
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I'll probably do a proper write-up about it or something, idk. it escalated quickly
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Funnily enough I would 100% believe the MensRights Male/Female post while being super sceptical of the Whitoid/BIPOC post (the effect size is also pretty large for the Male/Female post).
Is this a personal bias in me or does that accurately reflect reality on the ground?
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Little of column A, little of column B. My instinct is/was to believe the MRA post also, but... y'know, it doesn't provide any more evidence than the academia one, and it doesn't even have the credibility of being attached to someone's real name. I still want to say it sounds more plausible, but yeah, I think a bit more skepticism towards it is probably healthy.
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