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Topic	The Gender studies hoax - fake papers passing peer review
scar the 1 10/15/18 7:15:13 AM #8:	This has been picked apart by a lot of scientists already. Basically: - The people in this study do their best to misrepresent how many of their papers actually did get accepted, and how reputable the journals were - They often invented fake data and tacked on weird ideas in the conclusion. When reviewers thought the data were interesting, they made it look as if those comments were directed at the weird ideas. Often the reviewers actually discarded the weird ideas as weird. - Perhaps most notably, this study is in itself pretty bad science, as there is no comparison to any other field. Predatory journals exist in literally every field, and their method does not even consider that. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two. <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:910554774] in The Gender... [t:77099140]...</cite> <quote>This has been picked apart by a lot of scientists already. Basically: - The people in this study do their best to misrepresent how many of their papers actually did get accepted, and how reputable the journals were - They often invented fake data and tacked on weird ideas in the conclusion. When reviewers thought the data were interesting, they made it look as if those comments were directed at the weird ideas. Often the reviewers actually discarded the weird ideas as weird. - Perhaps most notably, this study is in itself pretty bad science, as there is no comparison to any other field. Predatory journals exist in literally every field, and their method does not even consider that. --- Everything has an end, except for the sausage. It has two.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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