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the-pi-guy said:
o_O.Q said:

I think he has a valid reason to be skeptical

the social sciences have recently been shown to be overrun with leftist ideology to the point where nonsense like this is seen as valid

https://www.barstoolsports.com/chicago/fake-study-saying-dog-parks-are-cesspool-for-rape-culture-earns-real-award-and-now-author-is-in-real-trouble

the tilt further and further left has been documented by even left leaning sources

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/27/research-confirms-professors-lean-left-questions-assumptions-about-what-means

and I suppose for people who lean left to begin with this may not be seen as an issue but it obviously is because what is researched and how much certain conclusions are challenged is obviously going to be adversely impacted

>the men who wrote that journal apparently got 20 or so journals through

This is false.  

He wrote 20 such articles.  6 of those were rejected, 7 were still pending, and 7 were accepted.  

At least one of these 7 was not a high end journal, but was a "pay to publish" open access journal.  I don't know enough about the rest, just that few were significant at all.  

its been a while I mixed the numbers for the ones he got through with how many he wrote in total

so the fact that he got 7 through and 7 were pending out of 20 troll journals doesn't strike you as alarming? ok fair enough

and as I've said he was successful because he as do I understands the ideology, all he did was copy the ideas for bullshit THAT WAS ALREADY PUBLISHED

its not like this was a one off thing that began and ended with him

i could probably write a few journals myself if I had the qualifications in this field, because this ideology is not difficult to understand or appropriate, to say its as shallow as a soapdish is a disservice to soap dishes

finally, he amusingly instead of being lauded for pointing this issue out is now being reprimanded