Eric Luttrell

English professor at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi.

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

1st of 2 on Morien, Feirefiz & the "Black" Knight in Arthurian lit. It's a long one. Would love feedback from anyone w/ exp in medieval representations of race or anyone interested: @Medievalists @medievalpoc @blackberryeater @erik_kaars @medievalhistory? https://t.co/RaRij2HsPw

[Chris Riedel @medievalhistory]

"Since you didn't get away with blowing up Parliament, we're going to let you off with a stern warning."

[Gordon Pennycook @GordPennycook]

This is a really interesting observation. It's easy to mistake effortful thought for critical thought. Spending a lot of time thinking without considering if you might be wrong is counterproductive b/c it *feels* like you're putting in effort to seek the truth but simply aren't

[Dr. Sherry Zaks: minces garlic, not words. 🏳️‍🌈 @TheDapperChef]

How has no one referred to the insurrection as "Guns, Germs, and Steal"????

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Good morning 🌞

Lies are not “differences of opinion.”

Have a great day!

[NAACP @NAACP]

And you thought "Taking A Knee" was too much!?!

[Ben Manripeem @BradleyOnishi]

2020: a referendum on which invisible things you believe in and who has the authority to tell you what to do about it.

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

Science is biased against my anti-scientific dogmatism!

[Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs]

Every time I post a new study showing that university indoctrination does not happen (and there's usually one every 2-3 months), I get the same stubbornly dismissive range of responses. People just don't want to believe it. They refuse.

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

On the demand for "alternative facts" https://t.co/D4gc2nkY6r

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

@jasonintrator Forget offensiveness. The problem is that a prof is spreading disinformation. He is undermining education rather than providing it, and adding a facade of legitimacy to delusion. Also, his writing contains frequent comma splices. Cancel.

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

Eppur si muovo

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Today was a very, very odd day

I testified before @senatehomeland

They held a hearing on hydroxychloroquine.

Yup, HCQ

In the middle of the worst surge of pandemic

HCQ

It was clear how our information architecture shapes questions of science and medicine of COVID

A thread

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

“Things were bad for me, so they should stay bad for everyone else” is not a good argument against debt cancellation - student, medical, or otherwise. #CancelStudentDebt

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

Dude. You lost.

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

@michaelshermer Do you want to live in a world with more educated people or fewer?

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do when evaluating scientific evidence https://t.co/jBZmncU34d I think *psychological* conservatism of this sort can probably be found across party lines, but psychological liberalism only on one side and only a subset.

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

@NateSilver538 Like how it's harder to get a professional boxer to lose consciousness.

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

For rhetoric classes, a good counterpoint to JSMill and @JonHaidt: The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation https://t.co/pheSY5QKEy

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Senator Mike Lee’s insistence that the U.S. is not a democracy echoes the fact that many on the right view voting as an existential threat.
https://t.co/DSVRiJKtb0

[Eric Luttrell @EricLuttrell]

Vote for science and civilization. Both are under direct existential threat from the worst primate instinct: epistemic authoritarianism.