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In their capacity as authors of a blog post, sure - but in their capacity as conductors of a social science experiment they're also claiming to have verified a
by fenomas 8y ago
In their capacity as authors of a blog post, sure - but in their capacity as conductors of a social science experiment they're also claiming to have verified a hypothesis (that certain journals would publish absurd papers), and that's the claim I think is weak.
Please understand I'm not defending the content of these journals - I'm saying that this ten month hoax doesn't appear to have established anything.
- darawk 8y agoI think I would state their hypothesis as: that the content of these journals is absurd, and by using slightly more absurd hypotheses than their normal fare, we can clearly demonstrate to other people that their content is absurd when those more obviously ridiculous ideas get accepted.
- tptacek 8y agoIf that's really the case, they could have established the exact same thing simply by quoting real articles from the journal. Obviously, nobody would write a news story about that, and now you see the problem with this hoax.