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Not professional trolls, but experts in academic trolling. Professional trolls make a living on trolling itself, these premiere experts in academic trolling ha
by microcolonel 7y ago
Not professional trolls, but experts in academic trolling.
Professional trolls make a living on trolling itself, these premiere experts in academic trolling have demonstrated a methodology for determining the willingness of the research community to endorse the truthfulness of deliberately-meaningless just-so nonsense and sweet nothings.
The bad-faith actors in this case are the publishers who claim to have read, understood, and verified articles which are little more than epistemological dogwhistle spaghetti.
- hackcasual 7y agoThe trolling was paying to publish nonsense papers in 0 impact score vanity rags and convincing people that implied something about the academic rigor of the fields themselves.