70: Doubling-blinding dog balls

Dan and James discuss the recent "grievance studies" hoax, whereby three people spent a year writing twenty-one fake manuscripts for submission to various cultural studies journals. They also discuss a new proposal to shift publication culture in which researchers pledge to publish exclusively in community-run journals but only when a pre-specified threshold of support for this commitment by the research community has been met. Here's an overview of the episode: - It’s fat bear week! - The new proposal to fix the stranglehold of commercial publishers in academia - Flipping journals to open access - The ‘grievance studies’ hoax - When James first came across the “dog rape” paper - What if you were to design the dog study properly? - Should we systematically try and hoax journals? - Astronomy already injects fake data, can we learn from this? - Should these new hoaxes all be associated with Sokal? Links - Brian Resnick’s fat bear week story: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/10/9/17955432/fat-bear-week-katmai-national-park-409-747-salmon - https://freeourknowledge.org - Paywall the movie: https://paywallthemovie.com - The ‘grievance studies’ hoax: https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ - James’ thread on the “dog-rape” study: https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1048313273563668486 - The proposal for systematic hoaxing: https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1047507838493499392 - A tweet from one of the reviewers of the dog paper: https://twitter.com/dwschieber/status/1047497301021798400 - Fake (a.k.a. blind) injection in astronomy: https://www.ligo.org/news/blind-injection - The original Sokal paper: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgressv2/transgressv2_singlefile.html - Dan on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana - James on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers - Everything Hertz on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast - Everything Hertz on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/ Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/