I somehow missed this although I seem to recognise quotes from it so I must have seen bits of it. Some very varied views here.https://twitter.com/ElRazhes/status/1050154133733425153 …
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Also, this isn't what our reviewers did. They didn't advise us on intellectual wrong turns & leave us to make up our own minds & then publish us anyway. They almost unfailingly required us to go even further than we had in ideological bias.
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"Any academic who thinks hoaxing as such is unethical or nugatory is a dull and petty functionary, and evidently has no interest in participating, or reveling, in the ongoing life of ideas." Thank you, Justin E. H. Smith
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"But these particular pranksters also grouped the outright asinine (canine rape culture) with the totally plausible (fat people bodybuilding)." Somebody didn't read the fat bodybuilding paper. Hint: it doesn't advocate fat people bodybuild muscle. That would be unacceptable.
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And I'm not convinced by the claim that women particularly are still struggling for representation in the academy seeing that women are a third more likely to go to university than men.https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/28/university-gender-gap-at-record-high-as-30000-more-women-accepted …
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The point of your project, from what I understand, wasn't that it's possible to slip frauds into journals. The point seems to be that journals will publish nonsense if the absurdities fit their agenda.
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Precisely. I don't know why this is so hard to grasp for so many people.
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Because they want to law down smoke around this to confuse people about the real meaning of the project.
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He mentioned logical assessment. That counts as an assessment of an argument. Theoretically, if the argument isn't valid it should never pass a test for logic and should ultimately be rejected. Were there any logical errors in the papers?
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