“There are concerns” is just superficial handwaving, and not “debate”. No wonder Allsopp thought she could say stuff freely. She wasn’t really saying anything of substance. What are those concerns? How do we address them? What needs to change? Who do we speak to? Because while Allsopp was “debating” by saying she had “concerns”, some of us doing the actual debating were vomiting in bathrooms before facing the IOC, speaking with wobbly legs, being harrassed at work, being reported to our institutes and journals, missing promotions, being reported to the police, having our research shut down, needing hot buttons to campus security and getting colleagues to walk us lectures. That was - and still is, for many of us - the consequence of actually debating.
“There are concerns” is just superficial handwaving, and not “debate”. No wonder Allsopp thought she could say stuff freely. She wasn’t really saying anything of substance. What are those concerns? How do we address them? What needs to change? Who do we speak to? Because while Allsopp was “debating” by saying she had “concerns”, some of us doing the actual debating were vomiting in bathrooms before facing the IOC, speaking with wobbly legs, being harrassed at work, being reported to our institutes and journals, missing promotions, being reported to the police, having our research shut down, needing hot buttons to campus security and getting colleagues to walk us lectures. That was - and still is, for many of us - the consequence of actually debating.
Well said Emma. I want to thank you for your wonderful talks, discussions, research and your cool calm effort to correct and inform those who had got something very wrong. I know myself and many others called on you more than once to correct pseudoscientific poppycock when it appeared on this site.