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She is brave. Exposing 'pretend science' gets you backlash. Just see consequences from 'Sokal Squared': https://www.chronicle.com/article/Proceedings-Start-Against/...

BTW, If you like what she is doing, you might like RealPeerReview (https://twitter.com/realpeerreview)

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If you have not watched Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay on the Joe Rogan show you should. Very entertaining and shows how ridiculous these publications are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

It seems the consequences of 'Sokal Squared' are because the papers contained falsified data, which is very different from what Dr. Bik is doing here.

Do you think Sokal-type pranks are legitimately exposing pretend science? It seems to me, the strongest conclusion you can make is that some journals are over-eager to publish studies with edgy titles or themes. This might bring into question the average level of scholarship in a field but it doesn't directly challenge whether a field is legitimate.

Moreover I don't think a journal with a title like "Gender, Place, and Culture" would classify itself as scientific. Its website certainly doesn't do so [0]. You can't expose pretend science if there's no pretension of science.

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=a...

No. It's not to expose pretend science, but pretend science publications/magazines.

I believe (No, I don't have evidence) that fields of 'X - studies' have people performing research with rigorous practices. Yet, those holding to standards are marred by nonsense publications from people who disregard standards.

Edit: This is enabled by magazines printing without... you know, Review.

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