Sounds like you should taken on @Quillette, the current clearing house for such.
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I know this will meet with vehement pushback, but I have very mixed feelings about Quillette and those who write for it. Take this essay, for example: https://quillette.com/2018/05/22/indigenous-ways-knowing-magical-thinking-spirituality-one-name/ …
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Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @gorskon and
I think there's a genuine spirit of "knowledge for knowledge sake, sensitivities be damned" that I believe has some value. But it REALLY bothers me that this serves, for some, as a cover for straight-up bigotry and lopsided critiques of "progressivism".
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Alan, that is a classic technique of the fake journal/scientific publication. You include/recruit enough legitimate science to create a patina of legitimacy to hide the underlying objective - insert bullshit into the literature. Eg Peter Thiel’s fake pub: https://qz.com/1537150/peter-thiel-is-funding-a-science-publication-questioning-evolution-and-climate-change/ …
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Yup. There are, unfortunately, quite a few of these fake journals in medicine. Most exist to legitimize pseudoscience and quackery, various homeopathy journals, for instance.
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