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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

My apologies to Stuart for bringing up his by now ancient misbehavior. I'm not a fan of attacks by Twitter archaeology, but his example was the only one I could recall that was directly posted in the open on Twitter.

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Realist's avatar

"Fittingly, Stuart himself is now an independent scholar. (This is too bad because Stuart is a good scientist, cowardice aside.)"

I vehemently disagree; a good scientist would never do anything to denigrate science.

A good scientist believes in gaining the truth and knowledge no matter the cost.

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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

Too much purism. Have you seen the average social scientist? Stuart is easily in top 5% and maybe top 1%.

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Realist's avatar

"Too much purism. Have you seen the average social scientist?"

My comment was in reference to those of the hard sciences.

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Sixth Finger's avatar

I can believe this. For most of my career I considered the term "social science" to be an oxymoron. It was in reality just left-wing advocacy couched in postmodernist mumbo jumbo... a few shining stars like Charles Murray, Linda Gottfredson, and the author of this article being notable exceptions.

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Christos Raxiotis's avatar

https://youtu.be/pukU3fmFXmY?si=9hIZZ7DfNW0of_Pb

Check this talk about political bias in academia

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Anthropology insights's avatar

You put the last part twice, btw :)

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Hans G. Schantz's avatar

If charging a publication fee is the mark of a low-quality vanity journal, how are page fees any different?

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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

Vanity journal is one with low standards and a price tag, so that someone can just buy a bunch of peer-reviewed publications, or books.

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