Making Sokaling a routine part of the academic process would go a long way towards fixing it, I think. A few dozen Sokalings are a good start to raise awareness, but if—say—5% of all submitted papers were Sokals, reviewers and editors would become much more careful.
.@Meaningness actually suggests registering Sokals & requiring PhD students to produce them, which is simultaneously so brilliant & so obvious that it makes the media hot take look like it was drafted in crayonhttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1047516944130351104 …
How would this work in practice? A paper would have to be registered as a Sokaling before first submission, along with an explanation of what the author thinks is wrong with it. A cryptographic time-locked database could ensure honesty about this.
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