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Re:Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas’ by yters on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:54AM (#18469498)
What's the use of pseudonyms when it is easy to deanonymize writing? If the writer is a well known academic it shouldn't be too hard to at least identify a probable author.
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Re:Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas’ by daveFNbuck on Saturday November 17, 2018 @02:08AM (#18474401)
> The thought is that such a policy would allow an untenured academic to publish a controversial paper

This is targeted at least partly at academics that aren't that well known.

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Re:Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas’ by nzjrs on Friday November 16, 2018 @10:58AM (#18469529)
Probbable is defence enough I'd say.
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Re:Here Comes ‘The Journal of Controversial Ideas’ by yters on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:33AM (#18469767)
What's the point of a pseudonym, then?
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