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galen · 2265 days ago · link · · parent · post: The next Sokal affair: academics get bogus papers accepted in "grievance studies" journals
Their first paper was published in a pay-to-publish journal. After that, the new strategy was to submit a large sample of papers to "higher-ranked" journals, expecting them to be rejected, and then editing based on received feedback and submitting to "lower-ranked" journals, over and over until they finally got something accepted. They found a reasonably "successful" method of "empirically" proving that their existing hatred of gender & race studies is justified-- just with a bunch of deception, falsified data, and absolutely no control (see Odder's point). This is a steaming pile of dogshit. https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/grievance-studies-hoax-not-academic-scandal.html