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I would view it more in the lines of this https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1320 https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1320 It is fairly common for "serious

I would view it more in the lines of this https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1320 https://www.bmj.com/content/335/7633/1320 It is fairly common for "serious scientific journals" to publish stuff occasionally which is explicitly not part of their normal formal peer reviewed content, but nevertheless they think is likely to be interesting for their readers. The Science Wars issue was different from the business as normal publications of the journal, and explicitly contained stuff that they wouldn't usually publish.

pi-e-sigma 3y ago
Yeah, right. Once caught with an egg on their face they just say "it's a prank bro!". Ecyclopedia.com take on what the so called Science Wars was: "The term science wars refers to a complex of discussions about the way the sciences are related to or incarnated in culture, history, and practice. These discussions came to be called a "war" in the mid 1990s because of a strong polarization over questions of legitimacy and authority." Does it sound to you like some tongue-in-cheek discussions and joking around?
- eigenket 3y ago
  The special issue certainly wasn't a matter of joking around, but it also wasn't a normal issue of the journal. After he submitted it they wrote to him (wikipedia quotes them): "We requested him (a) to excise a good deal of the philosophical speculation and (b) to excise most of his footnotes." They stuck it in the special issue after he refused to make these changes.
  - pi-e-sigma 3y ago
    It doesn't matter what issue they put his nonsense in. What matters is that his article was designed on purpose to look 'intellectual' but was made up of total nonsense to prove his point that the editors will allow any junk to be published as long as it looks 'sophisticated'. And he indeed proved it. That's it. They would be better off just admitting that they made a mistake but noo, instead they pretend that nothing happened and it is all just a misunderstanding. And you completely unnecessary carry water for them.

pi-e-sigma 3y ago

Yeah, right. Once caught with an egg on their face they just say "it's a prank bro!". Ecyclopedia.com take on what the so called Science Wars was: "The term science wars refers to a complex of discussions about the way the sciences are related to or incarnated in culture, history, and practice. These discussions came to be called a "war" in the mid 1990s because of a strong polarization over questions of legitimacy and authority." Does it sound to you like some tongue-in-cheek discussions and joking around?

eigenket 3y ago
The special issue certainly wasn't a matter of joking around, but it also wasn't a normal issue of the journal. After he submitted it they wrote to him (wikipedia quotes them): "We requested him (a) to excise a good deal of the philosophical speculation and (b) to excise most of his footnotes." They stuck it in the special issue after he refused to make these changes.
- pi-e-sigma 3y ago
  It doesn't matter what issue they put his nonsense in. What matters is that his article was designed on purpose to look 'intellectual' but was made up of total nonsense to prove his point that the editors will allow any junk to be published as long as it looks 'sophisticated'. And he indeed proved it. That's it. They would be better off just admitting that they made a mistake but noo, instead they pretend that nothing happened and it is all just a misunderstanding. And you completely unnecessary carry water for them.