The "fear of women's power" headline is silly... But not sillier than credulously retweeting the conceptual penis hoax was.
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Replying to @barrydeutsch @CathyYoung63
Was there any of this outside the Dawkins/Harris world? I feel like I've seen very little and I'm a target demo for it.
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Replying to @StoneColdBalla @CathyYoung63
I think the Dawkins/Harris world is pretty sizable? But I also saw CHS retweet it, for example.
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Replying to @barrydeutsch @StoneColdBalla
I RT'd it, though that was before I realized the pay-to-publish angle.
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Though I think
@HPluckrose has made some interesting arguments in defense of the experimenthttps://areomagazine.com/2017/05/21/sokal-affair-2-0-penis-envy-addressing-its-critics/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
The arguments for why it's a legit journal (it's on some lists!), rather than the pay-for-play journal it is, are not persuasive.
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OA journals do charge to cover their costs. Some do not peer review & accept almost anything and wind up on lists of predatory journals.
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1. If there was a real problem with gender studies journals not being able to tell purposeful nonsense from sincere papers, then they could
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I think being able to spot hoaxes is less important than being able to spot complete nonsense, sincere or not. We know that's a problem.
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Here's the thing: A lot of people claim is "complete nonsense" comes down to ideology. There's a way of testing this: Write a paper that is
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Yes, it does. That's why so many people were arguing 'conceptual penis' was sound even tho the authors weren't sincere. Indistinguishable
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Your article quoted two tweets - and one *explicitly said* they were kidding.
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