Friday, October 5, 2018

Three Scholars Use Jargon To Fake Out Academic Journals. Here’s What They Learned

Over the past 12 months, three scholars—James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian—wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions, and tried to get them placed in high-profile journals in fields including gender studies, queer studies, and fat studies. Their success rate was remarkable.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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