I'm not sure how to interpret your question. I pinned the tweet a week ago or whenever it was people were mostly talking about this issue, and since then haven't thought to un-pin it. What is it you are suggesting or asking with your question?
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... representativeness can be tricked into accepting papers written in bad-faith by authors whose proximate purpose is to disguise what they take to be absurd conclusions in language and arguments that are common in that field. Rather, one would have to show that (1) the sample
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.. of journals chosen was representative of journals taken seriously by scholars in those areas, and that (2) the same kind of chicanery would not succeed - if engaged in with the same deliberateness and efforts - in other fields that you do not see as being specially rotten.
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So, the reason I spent some time discussing problems in fields that I assume you take more seriously was to question whether you had really succeeded in providing good evidence for what I took to be your primary claim. As I said in my string of tweets, one doesn't need to do ...
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... a hoax to learn that there is quite a lot of ill-thought-out, inadequately supported, overly-ideological work in gender studies and related fields. However, in the areas of psychology and medicine I know very well, the very same statement could also be made. So, it seemed ..
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... to me that, while one might have v. serious concerns about the relative ease with which a person who is trying to trick a journal into accepting sub-par work can succeed in doing so, ur hoax did not provide good evidence that this was especially easy in the fields u targeted
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Seems irresponsible.
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What seems irresponsible? Sorry, I don't follow what you're referring to
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To insist that all or many academic fields suffer the sorts of failures that led the dog-humping paper to be accepted and recognized for excellence in the leading journal of its subdiscipline, e.g.
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