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Some journals and conferences have nothing to do with science, just want your money, and find customers in academics who need to show they were published and ar
by wolf550e 10y ago
Some journals and conferences have nothing to do with science, just want your money, and find customers in academics who need to show they were published and are willing to pay for it. Exposing a journal that pretends to have scientific rigor as such is a service, but says nothing about the discipline.
If you generate nonsense, tell a physicist that it's a paper on physics and have him read it, he'll say it's nonsense, not physics. If you generate nonsense, tell an avantgarde poetry club that it's avantgarde poetry, and have them read it, they'll agree it's avantgarde poetry. Exposing a scientific discipline as actually an avantgarde poetry club is important.
- RodericDay 10y agoWhat, exactly, do you think "Social Text" is? > Social Text is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, Social Text has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment. It's just a small college journal that basically prides itself on not judging the things it publishes. The fact that you happily call bad scientific journals and conferences "nothing to do with science", but try to pin this random "Social Text" journal as a perfect representative of liberal arts, is funny to me.