Springer Nature ‘shares concerns’ as article sparks racism claims

The normal academic method if you disagree with what someone else has published is to produce your own article rebutting their work, showing why you think it is flawed. Apparently some people want to sink to the depths of Twitter, where the acceptable approach to an opinion you feel is wrong is to howl in outrage, abusing and harassing the person who expressed that opinion. There is no place for such behaviour in academic debate. Those who think Mead is wrong had better get writing...