[mayniac]

> " By Peter W. Wood"

> " Mr. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars. "

Of course the person being "cancelled" would write an opinion piece on "cancel culture".

One person criticised his event on twitter and he wrote an opinion piece on WSJ about how he's being persecuted. This seems incredibly childish to me. Especially considering the original tweet* got under 100 retweets and about 130 likes.

Honestly, I feel like this is more likely to be advertising for the conference than an actual complaint about "cancel culture". Nothing here is noteworthy in any way.

*https://twitter.com/lteytelman/status/1215380405597065216

[ilikehurdles]

Opinion piece author, an anthropology PhD holder, has been pushing climate change denialism and attacking individual scientists via his NAS organization since 2009. He did the same thing to another scientist in 2011[1]. The publications he lists on the Federalist Society make his other agendas very clear. And yes, this is plain as day advertising and deception.

[1]:https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/b...

[mayniac]

His articles on the Federalist for anyone who's interested https://thefederalist.com/author/peterwood/

The paper, along with some really basic googling, raises a big red flag over NAS's impartiality. Namely that:

* NAS was founded by a conservative

* Its president is conservative

* Its funders are conservative

* Its board is full of conservatives

* It frequently uses conservative (arguably far-right) catchphrases like "defending western civilization"

* Often pushes conservative viewpoints such as climate scepticism

* Other conservative organisations call NAS conservative

Yet despite all that NAS, or at least Peter W Wood, consistently claim they are not a conservative organisation.

This is completely absurd. Definitely an advert and no sane person should trust anything that Wood is saying here.

[toomim]

Are you insinuating that conservative voices should not be listened to?

[freshhawk]

This does seem to be a perfect example of "cancel culture" though, someone is mad that regular people get to talk about them on the internet and them being "cancelled" has meant they get more attention, more press and their career is unaffected.

And most of the people complaining about it don't care about the specifics but want a chance to vent about the fact that their preferred version of phrenology isn't taken seriously anymore.