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There's no doubt that shoddy science gets published in "hard" science journals, but it's usually possible at least in principle to weed it out. But when your paper is based on opinion rather than statistics or data, my guess about its merit can be as good as yours.
1) There are different standards of evidence in different fields, including different fields of science. 2) These fields aren't pretending to be science (unlike some fields...). 3) Peer review sucks for catching deliberate fraud, including in hard sciences.
But I think part of the question here is precisely regarding the definition of those standards; if they are so all over the place that it's virtually impossible to even define what a "good" and a "bad" paper is, then isn't your field in trouble? The 2nd point I am sympathetic to.
And frankly... the journals under attack seem pretty small beer to me. I have a hard time caring whether their peer review standards are to snuff. There are little consequences associated with them being wrong that I can see?
The same cannot be said in many other scientific fields... I don't really get why the self-appointed stalwarts of objectivity don't spend as much time talking about how industrial funding taints scientific inquiry as they do small postmodernist studies.
I think there are many more methodological issues (p-hacking, replicability crises, lack of progress in some fields despite huge investments, etc.) that one can look at before worrying if a postmodern journal has a methodology that would satisfy Karl Popper.
(Which is why I tend to conclude that the people who think postmodernism is the enemy of science are either being disingenuous or just being foolish.)
(And to be very clear: I have never heard of any of the journals targeted, and I don't read their scholarship or put any particular value on it. But I think a "troll-based" approach to methodology — which is what I think hoaxing is — is not at all productive or interesting.)
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