> She wasn't spreading bullshit. That example - a black roman soldier in roman Britain - actually happened.
It was featured along with a caption describing it is a 'typical' family, making it ripe for mockery. A responsible historian might weigh in with something like "the scene depicted in the cartoon was improbable and definitely not typical, but not not completely outside the realm of possibility." Instead she weighed in with "pretty accurate, actually". Total BS.
> In this example he used bullshit of "we don't see the genes" - a point that got nicely debunked in a few places.
Did it? Link?
> But those books are pop books. Why did he become unhinged after she called his pop books pop?
In the context of the conversation "pop" is clearly a slur, inviting the sort of response it got.
She wasn't spreading bullshit. That example - a black roman soldier in roman Britain - actually happened.
> His declared modus operandi is to treat the spread of BS as an act of harm to the public which should be met with hostility
You make it sound like he never spreads bullshit, but he does, frequently. In this example he used bullshit of "we don't see the genes" - a point that got nicely debunked in a few places.
> Taleb didn't get too insulting until she referred to his "pop risk" books, at which point he hit back harder.
But those books are pop books. Why did he become unhinged after she called his pop books pop?
He's a fucking pompous blowhard.