> My own comment leads off by acknowledging they got a paper accepted into Hypatia --- my gripe is that it's not the lurid farce they suggest they got accepted

> My own comment leads off by acknowledging they got a paper accepted into Hypatia --- my gripe is that it's not the lurid farce they suggest they got accepted (a paper demanding that white male students sit on the floor in chains in class) but rather a much more boring paper about the legitimacy of hoaxes like theirs. IMO the paper they did get accepted is still quite disturbing. > When I said "They submit approximately the same paper to multiple journals and are rejected by all but the very most marginal", I was referring to a specific paper (in fact, the Mein Kampf paper), not to all the papers. My point was: they tried that paper in several places, and the (academically) reputable venues rejected them. Ok, but what about the others? > Yes, I think --- I'm actually pretty confident --- that I could get a false paper accepted in a CS venue. Economists have already remarked on Twitter that you don't have to get "nonsense" papers accepted yourself, because the literature is already full of what turns out to be nonsense (do keep in mind that in large part what these hoaxers submitted was not nonsense, but rather fabricated research including field work). False, sure. False papers get accepted all the time. That's part of the scientific process. These papers were not merely false, they were absurd. I seriously doubt you could get a truly absurd CS paper published anywhere remotely reputable.