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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:

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• It\u2019s fat bear week!
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• The new proposal to fix the stranglehold of commercial publishers in academia
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• Flipping journals to open access
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• The \u2018grievance studies\u2019 hoax
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• When James first came across the \u201cdog rape\u201d paper
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• What if you were to design the dog study properly?
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• Should we systematically try and hoax journals?
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• Astronomy already injects fake data, can we learn from this?
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• Should these new hoaxes all be associated with Sokal?
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Links

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• Brian Resnick\u2019s fat bear week story: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/10/9/17955432/fat-bear-week-katmai-national-park-409-747-salmon
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• https://freeourknowledge.org
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• Paywall the movie: https://paywallthemovie.com
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• The \u2018grievance studies\u2019 hoax: https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
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• James\u2019 thread on the \u201cdog-rape\u201d study: https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1048313273563668486
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• The proposal for systematic hoaxing: https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1047507838493499392
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• A tweet from one of the reviewers of the dog paper: https://twitter.com/dwschieber/status/1047497301021798400
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• Fake (a.k.a. blind) injection in astronomy: https://www.ligo.org/news/blind-injection
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• The original Sokal paper: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html
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• Dan on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/dsquintana
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• James on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jamesheathers
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• Everything Hertz on twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hertzpodcast
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• Everything Hertz on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everythinghertzpodcast/
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Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

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