What a crock of moronic, paranoiac, intellectually bankrupt, pseudo-intellectual drivel.https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/865687735692120064 …
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They were required to make changes. To make it even more nuts. And one of the two aims was to demonstrate the low quality of pay-to-publish
Then why is it being painted as a Sokal-style indictment of the social sciences themselves?
Have you read the rationale for it yet?
Cogent is a scam journal that no on in the GS field holds in repute or even *has heard of*. So just what has been hoaxed here?
Ask the people arguing that Cogent was right to take it because it makes an excellent argument even if the authors don't believe in it.
That's a bit of a slip from the original claim that getting it peer-review-published demonstrates something about the GS field.
Now, a few Twitter randos are sufficient to make that claim? Talk about anecdata.
You're also a Twitter rando. Look at the comments under some of the pieces about it. Furious debate going on by academics & non-academics.
That's ... not how burden of proof works.
Cogent is such a joke in the community its editors won't even list it as a credential.
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