• MentalEdge
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    3 days ago

    Oh I’m sure there’s still some super mean spirited stuff that happens today, but it remains interpersonal and fairly private.

    The old timey stuff was more like the kind where some scientist would go out of their way to straight up publicly slander people with ideas they thought were bad.

    The modern equivalent would be like scientists calling each other “smooth brained” on twitter for proposing new theories that didn’t immediately make sense.