I thought this was a pretty fair piece - on that Sokal2 hoax.https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17951492/grievance-studies-sokal-squared-hoax …
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I'm not doubting you're convinced by your own study.
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The point I'm making, and which you're responding to, is that a good way to convince others is to design an experimental protocol in collaboration with the ones making the claims, and where everyone agrees to abide by the results, beforehand.
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I'm quite sure it is.
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However, I'm not sure how that would work here because if everyone agreed that its a problem that journals publish the things they do, they wouldn't be able to do that. They do it because people don't agree that this is a problem.
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For papers which do get published, you can ask the authors, or experts in the field, if there's any way to test a paper's claims. Or whether the results are reproducible. It may be that the authors admit that their claims are fundamentally untestable, which is also worth knowing.
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They do admit it. That is central to the feminist epistemology papers we cited which argue that to expect things to have evidence and be testable is to privilege the western scientific & philosophical tradition which is masculinist, white supremacist & imperialist.
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Does every author in these journals subscribe to that philosophy? I have no idea.
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