1/OK so, I might as well give my take on this new Sokal Hoax on culture studies:https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/cultural-studies-is-the-target-of-another-hoax-and-this-one-stings/ …
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2/Sokal hoaxes are funny pranks - at least I find them funny. And they probably do point to an important problem in academia - the "publish or perish" ethos that forces many academics to publish low-quality papers, often (though not always) in low-ranked journals.
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3/Our country has decided that research is the mark of a good professor, but the demand for professors as teachers far outstrips the supply of good research to be done. So tons of profs spend their time doing useless signaling. That's what Sokal hoaxes are picking up on.
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4/But what does this tell us laypeople about culture studies as a field? Does it tell us that it's all just a bunch of bullshit? No better than gibberish and copypasta from Mein Kampf? No, it does not.
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5/The reason I know this is because of econ. If you wanted to "prove" that econ was bullshit, you wouldn't even have to Sokal hoax any journal. You could just pull real examples from the literature. There are some BAAAD papers out there. But are most econ papers bad? No.
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6/Most econ papers have methodological issues of one kind or another, sure. But the majority are serious, honest efforts by smart researchers to get at important questions. *Despite* the weakness of peer review.
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7/There are a lot of people who criticize the econ profession from outside, without seeming to know what economists even actually do. https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/950079662121615361 … Sokal hoaxes play to the preconceptions of these folks.
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Noah Smith 🐇 🇺🇦Verified account @Noahpinion1/OK, here is a thread for econ critics. Sweeping criticism of the econ profession - especially of the type published in British newspapers - continue to focus on macroeconomic forecasting. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion … https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/06/economists-economic-policy-brexit-crash-failure … http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/04/economists-have-had-another-terrible-year-time-complete-re-think/ …Show this thread2 replies 8 retweets 69 likesShow this thread -
8/Sokal hoaxes appear to confirm a "pop critique" of an academic field that may only be true for a minor subset of that field. "Econ is shilling for rich people." "Postmodernism is unintelligible gibberish." "Culture studies is lefty propaganda." And so on.
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This all good except Economics is shilling for rich people!
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