Life in the future
A group of pranksters decided to write a bunch of hoax papers and see if they could get them published in their respective field’s academic journals. They got 7 published. One paper was on how dog parks promote rape culture. And another was a chapter from Mein Kampf where the author substituted “men” for “jews”.
The future is stupid. And scary. And also hilarious.
October 4th, 2018 at 8:38 pm
The got 7 out of 20 published. Another 7 were still in process of publication. 6 were rejected. Then someone outside the academic field noticed how silly one of their papers was and started digging. They stopped rather than start perpetrating outright fraud.
October 5th, 2018 at 11:54 am
When the corporate life experience of a generation that experienced global disaster (ie. WWII) passes from this world, a new generation takes the reins, knowing nothing of what went before.
There’s no one left to say, “I was there. I know what happened.”
Bad ideas are reborn with new energy, wearing a new mask. We are on the road to a very dark, dangerous place.
October 5th, 2018 at 12:59 pm
Eh, it’s the Sokol Hoax redux.
The Pomo/Critical Theory fields lack the sort of serious intellectual foundation to filter out nonsense.
(That and, I mean, when your journal is the “journal of poetry therapy”, well, we can’t complain too much when they accept a bad generated poem.
Because an actual poem that a real person found useful in their actual therapy experience cannot be differentiated from a bad piece of generated nonsense, because people are awful poets.
That one’s critique is more “this is not a scientific field and nobody should pretend it is”.)