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> #AlanSokal laid siege to postmodern theory with a Trojan horse.. #Sokal wrote a deliberately preposterous academic paper called “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” He filled it with the then trendy jargon of “critical theory,” and submitted it to a prominent journal of cultural studies called Social Text.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/can-social-scientists-save-themselves-human-behavior-78858

#ChatGPT had the ground prepared for it by the #BullshitOfAmbition in #PublishOrPerish organizations?

Feb 21, 2023 at 12:14pmWeb
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Here's another academic hoax from 2019:
> #PeterBoghossian, a philosopher at Portland State University, dropped a thunderous bomb on the academic community: He revealed that he had co-authored 20 bogus articles, most related to gender and queer studies (what critics often deride as "grievance studies"), and submitted them to a range of high-profile journals.

https://psmag.com/education/a-philosophers-hoax-embarrassed-several-academic-journals-was-it-satire-or-fraud
#Boghossian #AcademicHoax #ScienceScandal #MechanicalWriting
A Philosopher's Hoax Embarrassed Several Academic Journals. Was It Satire or Fraud?

By resorting to satire, did Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian violate basic professional and ethical standards?

Show thread(((o))) Acoustic MirrorFeb 21, 2023
@bsmall2 I still insist that most academic writing is so terrible that it's probably best to automate it.
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@acousticmirror My guess is the quantity of quality values have to change... There seemed to be some good recommendations and movement mentioned in this old article. I wonder what happened the them over the last 6 or 10 years (the article is from 2014, edited in 2017, I think). I was just starting to learn org-mode when I read it. Hoping people would have heard of Reproducible Research in Japan...
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@acousticmirror Now I'm reading Cracked. The article came up while searching for the Jerry Adler psmag article that's been bothering me for a while, ever since machine-generated stuff like ChatGPT became a hot topic... Cracked takes on medical science. Edward Tufte does too. The problem is probably pitch-culture, marketing, corporations and their psychopathic profit-motive twists a lot of people...