A good portion of the soft sciences stemming from Sociology outwards seem to be more a political conglomerate of mutual back-patters who have attached themselves to academia like a leech than an actual academic institution.
I'm not opposed to the study of these subjects, but the fact that this keeps happening proves that there's a startling lack of rigor present in these fields, and that lack of rigor puts any conclusions said fields make into question. There needs to be a realization that allowing poor quality work into journals destroys the credibility of your institution.
Do engineering or physics departments never use weird jargon?
They do but generally speaking if you use it willy nilly to try and prove points that don't follow you don't make it into academic journals.
Like if I used "without loss of generality" on a mathematical proof case to try and essentially say "a-b = b-a" my professor would mark me wrong because I fucking broke arithmetic.
I think it's been known for a while that various small time science journals will publish basically anything for cash
Those fields' conclusions are more falsifiable; other scientists can concretely state why a conclusion is false by pointing to a specific component of the argument and showing how the numbers don't add up.
The trouble is that legitimate fields whose findings are rooted in the human psyche are a lot harder to prove or disprove. The trouble arises when journals accept papers that include unsubstantiated conclusions, not doing their own duty in at least attempting to hold social sciences to the same standards of reproducibility.
I think this story just means they need to work on their peer review process, not that gender studies or social sciences are totally bunk
The Bogdanov affair is a classic example of a weird peer review failure in physics.
Also, Rothschilds bow to the Bogdanovs
-Rothschilds bow to Bogdanoffs
-In contact with aliens
-Possess psychic-like abilities
-Control france with an iron but fair fist
-Own castles & banks globally
-Direct descendants of the ancient royal blood line
-Will bankroll the first cities on Mars (Bogdangrad will be be the first city)
-Own 99% of DNA editing research facilities on Earth
-First designer babies will in all likelihood be Bogdanoff babies
-both brothers said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence on Earth has only existed deep in Tibetan monasteries & Area 51
-Ancient Indian scriptures tell of two angels who will descend upon Earth and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with them
-They own Nanobot R&D labs around the world
-You likely have Bogdabots inside you right now
-The Bogdanoffs are in regular communication with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, forwarding the word of God to the Orthodox Church. Who do you think set up the meeting between the pope & the Orthodox high command (First meeting between the two organisations in over 1000 years) and arranged the Orthodox leader's first trip to Antarctica in history literally a few days later to the Bogdanoff bunker in Wilkes land?
-They learned fluent French in under a week
-Nation states entrust their gold reserves with the twins. There's no gold in Ft. Knox, only Ft. Bogdanoff
-The twins are about 7 decades old, from the space-time reference point of the base human currently accepted by our society
-In reality, they are timeless beings existing in all points of time and space from the big bang to the end of the universe. We don't know their ultimate plans yet. We hope they're benevolent beings.
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