The benefits of a University eduction…education.

We Need A Famine 14 Comments

Not being called a twat for submitting tripe like this:

14 Replies to “The benefits of a University eduction…education.”

  2. A twat by any other name would….well…you know…..smell the odour of another pee review. In fact, I would suggest that hiring a dog to piss on submitted papers would be as rigorous as the standards used these days. Just select the paper with the most saturation, and there is your candidate for the next big SsHrc grant. Etc.

  3. I heard stories about how some research papers were reviewed and I was astonished that academics could be so sloppy. According to my Ph. D. supervisor, he saw one of his colleagues take a manuscript out of the envelope it came in, quickly glanced at it, and then put it in the department’s outgoing mail.

    Then again, many academics have been in school since they were children and haven’t had much experience with the real world, let alone knowing how much of it functions. People like that could be easily duped by bogus publications and shoddy data.

    On the other hand, once one has tenure, why should one care about what goes on outside of the hallowed halls of academe, right?

      1. I’m an assistant editor for a certain publication and I read the submissions. It takes a long time to check for errors both in logic as well as punctuation and syntax.

  5. The “peer review” comments on the phony Dog Park paper are hilarious. Brightens up my Saturday morning, reading them.

  6. And why, pray, were the names of the editors redacted?

    These dingbats needed to be named and shamed. Nothing else gets through to them.

  7. punked. severely punked.

    and that thing about ‘speciesism’. apparently a syphilis bacteria has equal rights as the reviewers.

    1. The difference is a spirochete doesn’t have the wits to know better and it only plagues people who make bad decisions. All of us are paying for this plague.

  8. It is instructive to read the history of George Psalmanazar who was a late 17th and early 18th century fraudster. He concocted a series of fantastical descriptions of life in Japan and, subsequently, Taiwan including an invented language which duped the European “intellectuals” of the time. The criticisms of the few who had actually travelled to those distant regions, mainly Jesuit priests, were disbelieved and discounted as it was politically fashionable to do so. The result was a lucrative career for Psalmanazar including a pension, based on nothing more than wild imagination, pure invention and chutzpah. Modern academia has become the home to whole departments of Psalmanazars inventing pure gibberish and pseudo-academic tripe fobbed off onto unsuspecting youngsters at great profit to the fraudsters and great cost to the youngsters, their parents and the taxpayers. To make matters worse, the whole scam is protected by gutless or venal fellow academics and administrators who want a cut of the lucre swindled out of the unsuspecting dupes none of whom will realize, until it is far too late, that they paid good money for a load of codswallop.

    1. Recall the Chinese feathered dinosaur fossil. Nat Geo gushed all over it, a fake cobbled together by a peasant farmer. Very impressive.

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