The point is that the observations were completely uncontroversial and good science.
The problem was that they conflicted with a political narrative someone wanted. If someone takes that more seriously than following the evidence where it leads, they suck and should get out of science.
We have a serious problem if someone making a minor comment results in a 10-email tirade because "that's just science" or whatever nonsense is being used to justify it.
Re:China's ancient water pipe networks
by mrguyorama on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:16PM
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Have you not had meetings where you bike shed the copy on a website?
Re:China's ancient water pipe networks
by gweinberg on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:07PM
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I wouldn't consider bouncing a muffin off someone's head to be "taking things seriously". Closer to the opposite.
It's more a realization that we only have a hierarchical, male dominated point of view on history and that there's a ton of backfill work to do because of that limitation.
> A friend once received a 10 email tirade over several hours by making some benign metallurgical observations
Welcome to science? If they were meeting in person someone would have bounced a muffin off his head. People take what they're doing really seriously.