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If your criteria for publication is what is epistemologically true you are going to find it difficult to publish in any domain except possibly pure mathematics
by lukev 8y ago
If your criteria for publication is what is epistemologically true you are going to find it difficult to publish in any domain except possibly pure mathematics or physics.
- haberman 8y agoSocial Constructionism and Blank Slatism are theories that can be tested. There is plenty that can be published on these topics that is based in evidence rather than ideology.
- PeterisP 8y agoHowever, if you fake (or, as in this case, completely make up) your evidence, then you'll be able to get false things published - the peer review process has no ability to verify if what you claim is true, it does not and will not re-test the theory, that might be done by other teams after your results are published but not before.
- tynpeddler 8y agoA publication is not required to be true, but it should make some sort of progress towards making a true statement.