A verified “civil rights activist” had offered this deep thought about questioning somebody who’s a scientist:
If you are not a scientist, and you disagree with a scientist about science, it's actually not a disagreement. You're just wrong.
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) August 4, 2017
Apparently it was considered t-shirt worthy:
Hey! Now you can get this on a T-shirt, tote bag, mug, or sticker AND support your fav civil rights activist (me!) ? https://t.co/FfouUeDrMy
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) August 4, 2017
But upon further counseling, something changed:
Hey y'all—Based on feedback from scientists I'm retracting. I'm not going to delete the tweet bc I don't do that but consider this retracted https://t.co/kNxz0zxt1p
— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) August 5, 2017
We were going to suggest that anybody who bought the original t-shirt retract the statement by turning the shirt inside-out, but there’s apparently no need for that:
P.S. how are the t-shirts selling?
P.P.S. do you think your retraction will be spread as fast as your original tweet?Hint: no
— Tom (@tom_ex_gop) August 5, 2017
1. Haven't sold any
2. I've no control over what goes viral but yeah, it's unlikely. I tweeted retraction both as reply to OP + new 1 though— Danielle Muscato (@DanielleMuscato) August 5, 2017
“Science” can be fun!
Hey y'all there's this logical fallacy called "appeal to authority" and she just learned about it.
— Good Dog, Blue. ? (@sasimmons) August 5, 2017
— BeingHannahB? (@hannahbrokaw) August 5, 2017
So the only one that can convince you that a scientist is not always right is another scientist? pic.twitter.com/vEbPTiDTtx
— aBrickNtheWally (@goin2tupelo) August 5, 2017
You need to delete the tweet and were wrong to discourage free speech with an elitist and patronizing statement
— BoxerTheHorse (@wakeupthefarm) August 5, 2017
https://twitter.com/SteveBlogs1/status/893650627020115969
Oof.
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