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thaumasiotes
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Some private equity firms are furious over a paper...
> If anything, situations like this should actually help your career—what better signal you’ve found a good vein of research?
How'd it go for Charles Murray?
drb91
on Oct 27, 2018
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Not the same situation—he lost status on the strength of his work.
fjsolwmv
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He had a long and successful career under the patronage of eugenicists and scientific racists who hung on to obsolete ideas after their time had past.
maehwasu
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I'm not sure that knee-jerkingly smearing him (by association) as a racist eugenicist quite disproves the point that tenure is not protection from misguided attacks.
danharaj
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Shockingly, very few things protect you from people saying bad things about you on the Internet.
angrow
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No need to turn to his associations for evidence, you're free to read his work and judge for yourself.
Viliam1234
on Oct 28, 2018
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The whole point of character assassination is to make people less likely to actually read it.
drb91
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You can read his work and evaluate for yourself.
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How'd it go for Charles Murray?