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Publishing sting is not the UMN team's intervention. The Sokal affair [1] is probably the most famous one. There are many others too [2]. In the Grievance studi
by temp8964 6y ago
Publishing sting is not the UMN team's intervention. The Sokal affair [1] is probably the most famous one. There are many others too [2]. In the Grievance studies affair [3], three researchers submitted 20 fake articles. They must have wasted tons of works on review teams.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_stings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
- ajross 6y agoThere's a big difference between a publishing a fake article and trojaning the kernel.
- whimsicalism 6y agoNot in terms of the reviewers time.
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- philwelch 6y agoThe Linux kernel is infrastructure. If it has bugs or security flaws, that directly impacts people’s lives. Intentionally publishing pseudointellectual nonsense in a journal of pseudointellectual nonsense by wasting the time of peer reviewers in pseudointellectual fields of study does not have any direct effect in the real world. The stakes are simply not comparable. To be blunt, even the value of the reviewers’ wasted time is not comparable.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoSokal and Pluckrose-Boghossian-Lindsay were polemics against misguided academic practice, you can make a case that these were piss-takes, not research projects. Note that there were real-world repercussions against Boghossian from his institution.