So, about that academic hoax: I think people who are saying it's no big deal to get shoddy papers published in journals of varying quality are missing the point. The problem is that there are no objective criteria to distinguish between shoddy and sound work in this fields.
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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.
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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.
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(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.)
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(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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