Five years ago, I suggested systematically Sokaling all peer-reviewed journals. To “Sokal” is, hereby, to attempt to publish clearly bogus papers to illustrate the brokenness of the academic publication process.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/307083846556471297 …
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In an unrelated Twitter thread someone has just suggested that the whole Chicago school of economics output from 1970 onwards was a Skokal-style hoax with a long fuse.
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I think many researchers, and many fields, semi-know they are spewing utter nonsense, but find ways to rationalize it. Macroeconomics is one. They know it is bogus but say, well, it gives some metaphorical insight anyway.
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I had in mind a more ambitious project. Pointing out that “grievance studies” fields are mostly nonsense is shooting fish in a barrel. We know that, for instance, “cognitive neuroscience” is also largely bollocks: