Anti-PC Writers Tricked Academic Journals Into Accepting Hoax Papers on Dog Rape, etc
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I once did a paper in high school and one of my sources was Richard Cranium. Fortunately my teacher had a sense of humor and got it.
There's a lot of garbage in academic circles these days. I've talked before about a former girl friend - only briefly, but we were friends before and currently - who left her budding career in foreign policy (Chinese studies) to run off to become an angry feminist poet. In between she became a part time lesbian, ran off to Southern California with her much older male professor from Georgetown, came back to the DC area to get married to a very marginally masculine man, and had a son she is raising to be gender neutral. So, now she's a published poet of angry, man-hating feminism and is a professor at a major university in the area. So, yeah, there's that. :rolleye2::biggrin:
On the surface, seems like a silly story.
There’s a legitimate need for “gate-keeping” in many areas of life, not just academia. But in my opinion, humanity’s story of struggle for individual freedom is the story of struggle for access to information and knowledge. From the Gutenberg Press to educational access to the digital age and a free and open internet, freedom is enabled by knowledge. And power resides in the hands of those who control the flow of information.
Gate-keeping, as necessary as it may be in so many areas, is rife with the potential for misuse. It requires vigilant oversight in order to maximize the dissemination of legitimate information, and minimize the dissemination of “fake news”. Else it can easily become a tool of intentional or unintentional oppression.
Or maybe it’s just a silly story.
There’s a legitimate need for “gate-keeping” in many areas of life, not just academia. But in my opinion, humanity’s story of struggle for individual freedom is the story of struggle for access to information and knowledge. From the Gutenberg Press to educational access to the digital age and a free and open internet, freedom is enabled by knowledge. And power resides in the hands of those who control the flow of information.
Gate-keeping, as necessary as it may be in so many areas, is rife with the potential for misuse. It requires vigilant oversight in order to maximize the dissemination of legitimate information, and minimize the dissemination of “fake news”. Else it can easily become a tool of intentional or unintentional oppression.
Or maybe it’s just a silly story.
Let's hope they don't take this obvious clownery to legitimate scientific journals.
There is already the alternative health meme that we don't need peer-reviewed research, that the Big Pharma companies are making people sick for profit. Hey, all you need to cure cancer is take my new snake oil, drink lots of veggie juice, take coffee enemas, follow the David Avocado Wolfe (Google that idiot and laugh) protocols.
I doubt this kind of frivolity would get past the NIH and other respectable scientific research journals. The alt-health folks hate to have the light of truth (RESEARCH!) put upon them. (See Gerson "therapy")
But I digress.
There is already the alternative health meme that we don't need peer-reviewed research, that the Big Pharma companies are making people sick for profit. Hey, all you need to cure cancer is take my new snake oil, drink lots of veggie juice, take coffee enemas, follow the David Avocado Wolfe (Google that idiot and laugh) protocols.
I doubt this kind of frivolity would get past the NIH and other respectable scientific research journals. The alt-health folks hate to have the light of truth (RESEARCH!) put upon them. (See Gerson "therapy")
But I digress.
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