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0 pointsthaumasiotes7y ago0 comments

> 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?

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drb917y ago

Not the same situation—he lost status on the strength of his work.

fjsolwmv7y ago

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.

maehwasu7y ago

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.

danharaj7y ago

Shockingly, very few things protect you from people saying bad things about you on the Internet.

angrow7y ago

No need to turn to his associations for evidence, you're free to read his work and judge for yourself.

Viliam12347y ago

The whole point of character assassination is to make people less likely to actually read it.

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