So, I should have done more diligence on this “conceptual penis” thing before tweeting about it, and now feel somewhat stupid.
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David Chapman Retweeted St. Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻
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@St_Rev (and others) were immediately skeptical, and were right to be so.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/865939540510470144 …David Chapman added,
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Here’s the background: http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2017/05/concep … They submitted to a less-bad journal first, it was rejected, and they sent it to a junk one.
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This is not just a wasted opportunity, it discredits skepticism about junk social science generally. Sokalling will be harder in future.
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I agree that the celebration misses the significance. But how can you possibly sokalize feminist glaciology etc. any further?
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That’s part of why their sloppiness may be really damaging. It ought to have been easy to get bs accepted by a reputable journal.
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it seems that the divorce between gender studies and science runs way to deep to make and meaningful discourse possible at this point
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Well, there’s evopsych versions that maybe look more like actual science? I haven’t tried to evaluate them seriously.
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But yeah, the impulse to Sokalize (which I share) is based on the perception that rational argument is impossible, but ridicule may help.
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you cannot destroy a religion by the ridicule of infidels
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