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The top article on that site at the moment is about the "Jewish elite". WTF?

http://www.science20.com/sascha_vongehr/scientists_for_donal...



Kind of terrifying since I just read this article on the targeting of specific groups: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/what-things-going-wrong-ca...


Interesting. Why does that author claim to have knowledge or expertise? I looked at his bio but didn't learn much about him.


It's clearly a right-wing site.

Or at least they seem to rant against "leftist" scientists. http://www.science20.com/kevin_m_folta/the_scicomm_challenge...


I wouldn't think being "right wing" would be sufficient to explain using the phrase "jewish elite".

Like, can we not treat "the people who say things like 'jewish elite' " and "people who are right wing" as being the same group?

I mean, I'm not saying they don't have an overlap ( It is probably true that P(a person is right wing | they say stuff about "the jewish elite") > P(the person is right wing) ),

but I'm concerned about the social incentives that might be created/contributed-to if they are treated as if they are the same.


Ahh, you're completely right, it's a lazy phrasing.


> It's clearly a right-wing site.

... It's clearly a collaborative site with hundreds of authors, at least two of whom are right-wing authors, who have presumably got to the top being controversial and attracting attention from outside the normally quiescent community of readers talking about entropic gravity, thus convincing the algorithms their content is worth showcasing.

HERETICS, THE LOT OF THEM! BURN THE DATA CENTER WITH FIRE!!!




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