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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(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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