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Joe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

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What it is

Joe Rogan interviews Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, who describe their hoax papers submitted to academic journals in grievance studies. The conversation runs about two hours and covers academic publishing, ideology and victimhood culture.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining account of how easily fake papers get published and of problems in academic peer review.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “A must watch IMO”

    Authors discuss hoaxing journals and competitive victimhood.

    geomark, 2019-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Jussie Smollett Story Shows Rise of Victimhood Culture”

  2. “Fascinating, horrifying, and entertaining in equal measure.”

    Interview with authors of fake academic papers.

    bartread, 2019-02 · Recommendation · in “We need to talk about systematic fraud”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: sokal squared, peer review, grievance studies, academia, joe rogan

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