Re:Proceedings Start Against ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Professor
by danieltillett on Monday January 14, 2019 @03:01AM
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No. I am suggesting that I can't have a rational conversation with anyone who thinks the hoax papers are serious research. Surprisingly that is what I said.
I don't want to throw out any area of research, I want to throw out those that publish papers that pretend to be research.
I am very critical about researchers failings in the natural sciences. I am probably even more critical of bad science because it is so much more damaging.
I think the wall of hoax papers does rather get across the scale of the problem.
How far do you cast your net? You seem to want to throw out anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, literary criticism, etc. Are you going to scrap history, philosophy, political science, economics, education, religion, design, ... departments too?
Be careful what you wish for: an awful lot of scholarship in lower-tier STEM journals is also garbage, albeit typically a different flavor of garbage: unoriginal, lazy analysis, strong claims unsupported by the evidence, based on incorrect technical premises, making false advertisements of its practical applicability, massaging data in illegitimate ways, etc. (I know this because I spend a lot of time reading math and science papers in my spare time.) Even Nature and Science occasionally need to retract a paper when it turns out the author plagiarized it or falsified the data.
P.S. You didn’t need to copy/paste a wall of hoax paper titles from Wikipedia.