I have found the pushback here bizarre. Of course it’s academic misconduct to seek publication of a fabricated study in a journal, even if you were only doing it to make a point.https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1083728248876556288 …
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It’s worth noting, even though these researchers call this “Sokal Squared,” the original Sokal Hoax paper was not fabricated as such — it was a pile of nonsense but did not contain false empirical claims.
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Data fabrication makes this a fraud, not a Sokalian hoax. Fabricating data gets people into the top medical journals: see vaccine/autism study in The Lancet. That fraud resulted in the doctor losing his license. Some journals publish crap, for sure. This isn't how to study that.
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FWIW, it would still be a terrible precedent to fire him over violating IRB protocols in what would otherwise be a fairly low-risk study albeit annoying, bad faith and misrepresented. He's in the wrong but this shouldn't be a firing offense.
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