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Neither the first time nor the last. In fact, this should be a semi-official running gag (a-la Chaos Monkey) with all journals to keep them honest. Btw I had
by midas007 13y ago
Neither the first time nor the last.
In fact, this should be a semi-official running gag (a-la Chaos Monkey) with all journals to keep them honest.
Btw I had this wild English prof that claimed to have written crazy shit in undergrad papers that was never caught to prove that graded papers were just skimmed.
- AmVess 13y agoI had a crazy English prof that told me he never wrote a line of anything that wasn't complete malarkey, including his PhD thesis. He's currently enjoying being a highly respected prof at a top uni, and he still writes complete gibberish. He's one hell of a writing teacher, which is probably why they keep him around.
- saraid216 13y agoThat's not going to keep them honest...
- Theodores 13y agoMaybe there should be merit given to people that self-select themselves to be the 'mystery shoppers' of the academic world. Perhaps you could get a job where the deciding factor to hire you rather than someone else was your ability to get x papers of utter nonsense in academic journals/conferences. If you think about it there are people doing this already...