▲ | foldr 7 months ago | |||||||
I looked up Helmuth’s original tweet and it seems like a reasonable one sentence summary of the paper to me. I think the problems here are (i) twitter being twitter (not a great venue for detail and nuance) and (ii) a paper reporting its results in an overly sensational way. If there absolutely definitely aren’t more than two sexes in a given species, don’t say that there “effectively” are. | ||||||||
▲ | codocod 7 months ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
It's how she reacted to scientists who responded to her tweet politely challenging her assertion that this species has four sexes that is more the issue: doubling down, blocking anyone who disagreed. An editor of a science magazine should be willing and open to discuss science with scientists. Particularly if they're trying to help correct a misconception. | ||||||||
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▲ | anonfordays 7 months ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I looked up Helmuth’s original tweet and it does not seem like a reasonable one sentence summary of the paper to me. That's why numerous biologist and scientists rejected her summary. |