[lee martell]

John Stossel has been reporting for many years.
I still recall him interviewing a professional wrestler and asking that wrestler on camera, if what they do on stage really fake? That wrestler boxed Johnnies ears in a split second and then walked away. I think his hearing was effected for the rest of that show.

Hey, guess who has a birthday tomorrow?
John Frank Stossel, Born March 6th, 1947 = 72 y/o!!
He looks about 10 years younger.

[4Liberty]

LOL! Fiction and fantasy writing masquerading as “peer-reviewed research”....

[kingu]

It's so ironic, a report by a reporter who used to be part of the machine that wanted articles that fit their agenda talking about hoaxsters who fooled academic journals who wanted articles to fit their agenda.

It's an incredible disservice to not point out that the media outlets he used to work for do exactly the same thing. Hell, odds are that the editors of the academic journals are former editors from national outlets. It's probably the same people who corrupt news to fit agenda who are doing the same thing to academia.

[NoCmpromiz]

PFL

[sphinx]

A suggestion for some academic (with ironclad tenure and a university president with some integrity and grit … maybe someone at Purdue): Assign some of these hoax papers in a class. Don't advertise them as hoaxes; just mix them in with real class materials, and encourage students to analyze them. See whether and how soon students would blow the whistle. Turn it into an exploration of standards, intellectual integrity and the current PC assault on the canon.

The challenge would be finding a pretext in a real academic course to raise these topics. The hoaxes were accepted by journals in the garbage studies ghetto, which is a highly self-selected asylum and echo chamber. That said, it wouldn't be too hard for professors in real academic disciplines to swerve into this territory. Any discipline in which postmodernism and critical theory contend for attention has this boundary problem.

[eastexsteve]

If you have been to college in the past 20 years and had your eyes open, you have seen this BS running rampant.

[Taxman]

Stossel got it right - “academic gibberish!”