By what particular thing are you asking about?
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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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All fields? Really? I do wonder if you're one of the types who would jump to criticize us when climate change deniers point to our project and say "see, peer review is crap!"
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I see it's only a lack of awareness on your part. The actual history of climate change science is filled - to the brim - with scandals. Don't take my word for it. Please investigate before assuming. Here's a good primer by Matt Ridley. http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/what-the-climate-wars-did-to-science/ …
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I like how the first word in your bio is "philosopher." Of course it is.
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The project didn't entail the claim that there was less "rot" in other fields from what I gathered. From what I read, it didn't make comparative claims about other fields at all.
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Here is the first sentence of the hoaxers' write up of their own work https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ …pic.twitter.com/GOFwkqlHyE
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Yes, they're saying something is wrong in these fields. They aren't saying something isn't also wrong in other fields like, say, psychology, where the replication crisis continues to rage. Other fields are outside the scope of their thesis from what I gathered.
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I'll cop to believing that no other field would have found remediating transphobia by shoving things up one's ass based upon poorly interpreted data from eight subjects to constitute compelling research or "a truly marvelous paper."
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