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> If you are in a field with so called "peer reviewed research" and someone can publish complete made up bullshit, then your entire field of study is garbage.
by badRNG 5y ago
> If you are in a field with so called "peer reviewed research" and someone can publish complete made up bullshit, then your entire field of study is garbage.
The problem is, that's simply not what's happening. Boghossian isn't getting published in any large or reputable journals. He's getting articles published in tiny obscure open access journals. His paper has repeatedly, consistently failed peer review in academic journals.
If I published a logically incorrect math proof in some obscure journal no one has ever heard of, I haven't "disproved math." To claim I did so would be deeply dishonest.
- CodeGlitch 5y agoI believe the point he is making, is that any old BS can be published, which is then picked up by the "woke" crowd and used in their citations...therefore highlighting that their citations are generally nonsense.
- not_kurt_godel 5y agoThat point is incorrect given he's not meeting the standard of "published" in real journals.
- ModernMech 5y agoTo show their citations are generally nonsense he would have had to do some analysis to prove this. Having fraudulent papers accepted to low impact, open access journals doesn’t exactly prove much of anything in a general sense.
- wayneftw 5y ago> The problem is, that's simply not what's happening. Boghossian isn't getting published in any large or reputable journals. He got published in journals that are used to teach at his school. > If I published a logically incorrect math proof in some obscure journal no one has ever heard of, I haven't "disproved math." Yet another strawman. Nowhere in the article did the professor claim to have disproved an entire field of study.
- fallingknife 5y agoIf it was only obscure journals that no one reads, then I agree, but my understanding was that this is not the case.
- ModernMech 5y agoThe journals were: - "Gender, Place and Culture" - Open Access - IF 1.5 - https://genderplaceandculture.wordpress.com/about/ https://genderplaceandculture.wordpress.com/about/ - "Hypatia" - Open Access - IF 0.781 - https://hypatiaphilosophy.org https://hypatiaphilosophy.org - "Fat Studies" - Open Access - IF 1.13 - https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ufts20/current https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ufts20/current - "Cogent Social Sciences" - Open Access - IF 1.0 - https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/oass20/current https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/oass20/current So yes, it appears he published his papers in small open access journals with little impact.
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- raxxorrax 5y agoI believe there are some hints that towing certain ideological lines is more important for a successful submission in some academic journals than the merit of the paper itself. For the reasons explained in the article and plain monetary interests.