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  • Boopdelahoop@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s different when it is their job to remain impartial. If a professor of Human Rights got paid his twice annual salary for a six-week stint at King Saud University and a year later authored a paper called “Saudi Arabia: Extremely Chill For Women And Gays, Actually”, you’d rightly look at it with suspicion.

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      1 year ago

      on the flip side a ref’s job is easily prone to errors, different rule interpretations, and like dear old Howard said yesterday just the need to keep things interesting (lmao). Whereas if that paper got published, everyone would look at the numbers and sources provided, and those are quite objective.