Sokal redux.
Thank you very much for posting this. This is on my save-list.
Thanks for the link. Interesting. Echo chamber to the max. Silliness.
FALSIFY
If the ability to falsify is banned, such as Google, Facebook or Twitter censorship, it is FAKE NEWS.
So the Rape Room Dog Park study was a fake to test the publication system ?
I don’t know which would be worse:
-if it was actually a real study, or
-that it was fake and they published it anyway
“Testimonials”???? Hardly.....the letters are the kind of crap that pretends to be thoughtful. Instead of just saying the trio did a wonderful job of exposing the Emperor and his ‘new clothes” each professors runs on and on with drivel to show how smart they are. That is the core problem
The idea that philosophers have anything other than gobbledygook to add to any subject is specious. Made up vocabulary and cynical world views have characterized such writings since the Renaissance.
I see three cheers for the clever authors. I particularly enjoyed the hubris of slipping in a large chunk of Mein Kampf into one of the papers
The hard science side used to have an entire journal devoted to such nonsense.....The Journal of Irreproducible Results. Still one of my favorite reads
Not your typical academics, these.
ACADEMIC: An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to provide or create things of value to others, who pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.