Grievance studies is a methodology that gets applied in varying degrees in various disciplines, I think. I'd say gender studies, for example, is perhaps 95% taken by it, or more. Sociology far less, maybe 30% to guess from my reading, but it's hard to say without further review.
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It's not a "problem in another field." It's that peer review as a system is vulnerable to the sort of attacks you used. You proved that peer review is vulnerable to malicious agents seeking to abuse it. Kudos. But I don't think you proved more than that.
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What do you mean? We targetted a very specific epistemology and ethical structure that isn't found in other fields & showed it to exist in this one. We couldn't publish an argument that using dildos make men less transphobic in a physics journal. The precedent isn't there
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But you could make up experimental results like you did here. Or make up theory like you did here. You telling me honestly you don't think you could use this same general hack to get a string theory or m-brane paper published in physics theory?
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Its not general. It is very specific. I don't know if there is a problem that can be exploited in physics. The bad epistemology would need to already be present in the body of work for it to work & I can't speculate on what that would be. I know little about physics.
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Here's something that might be clearer. Suppose bad scholarship were being done on the dangers of fat to support sugar companies. This has been suggested. Hoaxers could test this by drawing on existing scholarship to write bad papers that would make the problem clearer.
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Along the way, they could show that they got lots of direction from reviewers to say more about how fat is bad and sugar is good.This would then show a problem in knowledge production in that field. It is a different problem to the one in identity studies.
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Essentially, a problem needs to exist for this kind of exploration to be able to draw on the scholarly canon to make their cases. This problem won't be same in every field but there can certainly be many fields which have problems.
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Maybe. I'm not sure. I am pretty sure this method would never prove such a problem exists in any field, though. Anyone can do enough background to set up some decent cites and review, then lie about results or sneak in some glaring method flaw under a fake name.
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In that sense, I get "too far" critique. Don't think what you all did is all that invalidating of "Postmodernism," but I do think it's a solid indicator that there's real problem in lot of the "Studies" disciplines. But I don't think Nietzsche and Foucault have to lead us there.
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