[ProtectOurFreedom]

Did he do anything wrong? Of course he did. He exposed the pure unadulterated crap that poses as “scholarship” and for that he must be made an example of.

[Scrambler Bob]

I get it.

Juicy is going for his Doctorate.

[rlmorel]

"...So, hoaxes are never allowed, then..."

The entire Greivance Industry is a a hoax, as is the current state of peer review, not only in the USA, but in the world.

It is now entirely politically driven.

[Who is John Galt?]

Any research with human subjects—in this case, the “subjects” were the editors of the targeted academic journals—must be approved by the local Institutional Review Board. IRB rules always require the subjects’ consent.

The consent is implicit - academic journals review all material submitted for publication, and each will only publish what the journal approves. That approval is based on the journal's own standards, which the journal may or may not choose to apply to any individual submittal. If the journal elects not to publish, then consent is (obviously) witheld...

[metmom]

They lied.

[metmom]

Nope, I take that back.

Upon rereading it, I get what they did.

[TBP]

No, they did not.

[CommerceComet]

Did the researchers do anything wrong? Yes. Dr. Boghossian should have waited until he had tenure to publish this. It might not be perfect protection but it would make it a lot harder for Portland State to take action against him without lots of lawsuits that he now has a better chance of winning.