It's amusing to me that it was pin-worthy; that's all. I think I'm flattered.
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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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Plot twist: there's actually a spectacular amount of nonsense in all academic fields, and it's only a matter of time before all fields are exposed for being petty, political, and non-rigorous. Even the history of mathematics is filled with terrible ideas passionately defended.
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