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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Nobody listens to me, but my opinion is the best way to test these things is to agree to a protocol with those who are making the claims. And agree beforehand whether a particular result would disprove the claims.
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May be difficult, but otherwise, people are just going to argue forever over whether the study actually proved anything.
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It showed that we could draw on an awful lot of terrible scholarship to justify terrible claims and that reviewers would direct this to further awfulness.
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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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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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