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A question that comes up about open letters or letters of denunciation.
一个关于公开信或谴责信的问题。
So if a scholar had said something in her or his work or if it's been used in a way by an external organization that some other set of scholars objects to those scholars are absolutely welcome to share their critiques.
所以如果一个学者在她或他的作品中说了什么或者它被某个外部组织以某种方式使用了，而一些其他学者表示反对，非常欢迎这些学者分享他们的评论。
But a couple of conditions should be met.
但需要满足几个条件。
First of all, the scholars who choose to put their name on that letter should have actually read and understood what the original source material was saying.
首先，选择把自己的名字写在信上的学者应该已经阅读并理解了原始材料的意思。
Ideally they should also be within the same subject area so they have the expertise to interrogate those claims with authenticity.
理想情况下，他们也应该在相同的主题领域，所以他们有专业知识，以质疑那些学说的真实性。
There was one recently. Noah Carl was a postdoc fellow at Oxford and his work had been used by some outside organizations.
最近有一个。诺亚·卡尔是牛津大学的博士后研究员，他的研究成果被一些外部组织使用。
And before you know it this letter comes out denouncing his work signed by hundreds of scholars.
不知不觉间，这封信就出来了，谴责他的作品，数百名学者都在他的作品上签名。
We went through and spot checked and most of those scholars were actually not within his area of research.
我们进行了调查和抽查，这些学者中的大多数都不在他的研究范围之内。
This letter came out so incredibly quickly that I question whether the people who chose to share, to actually put their names behind the claims of the denunciation letter had done the difficult scholarly work of reading and thinking about what Carl had actually said in his work.
这封信出来的如此之快以至于我怀疑那些选择分享的人，那些把他们的名字放在谴责信的声明后面的人是否做了艰难的学术工作去阅读和思考卡尔在他的作品中到底说了什么。
And then some of the claims in the letter actually didn't line up with what we were able - when we did our close reading of what was in his work we weren't able to see justification for those claims.
然后信中的一些观点与我们所能做的并不一致，当我们仔细阅读他的作品时，我们无法看到这些观点的合理性。
Letters are certainly a form of scholarly engagement. It's a way to raise concern and critique, but we need to engage in those with the same ethical principles we would in other scholarly discourse.
书信当然是学术交流的一种形式。这是一种引起关注和批评的方式，但我们需要用与其他学术讨论相同的伦理原则来参与这些讨论。
