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Grievance Studies Affair
- jfengel 4y agoI can't shake the feeling that if these papers had all been rejected, they would have declared that they were being "deplatformed". These journals exist to consider off-the-wall, wacky, outrageous ideas. It's not physics, where every new idea is first subjected to the ability to reproduce a long history of existing experiments. The question of how humans should think about their lives is entirely open, and any progress will almost necessarily question things that seem obvious. That makes them easy prey for hoaxes. It also means that the vast majority of people take no notice and have no interest. Even when not being trolled, a lot of their ideas will go nowhere. This is such a weirdly one-sided war. Most people have never heard of any of the journals being trolled. They have no influence. Some people seem to have decided that they are nonetheless a bitter enemy and count coup on defeating them. The postmodernists, meanwhile, do not not care and have no interest -- just as practically nobody cares about or has any interest in them.