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Joe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

PowerfulJRE · 2.5M views · 2018-10-31 · 1:58:37

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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.

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

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2019

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geomark · 2019-11 · Strong recommendation

If you have not watched Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay on the Joe Rogan show you should. Very entertaining and shows how ridiculous these publications are. [VIDEO]

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geomark · 2019-02 · Strong recommendation

The term "competitive victimhood" came to my attention after watching the Joe Rogan interview of Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay who pranked academic journals with research papers based on ridiculous premises. A must watch IMO [VIDEO]

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bartread · 2019-02 · Recommendation

> But does that justify what they did? Yes, it does. These journals are an absolute joke, make a mockery of any serious attempt to advance knowledge and understanding, and deserve to be pilloried. Their standards of rigour and review are shockingly poor and as such they do not provide a suitable vehicle for the publication of genuine research, or for measured consideration of the content they do publish. Just this week I ran across this, where a couple of the academics concerned were interviewed by Joe Rogan late last year: [VIDEO] Fascinating, horrifying, and entertaining in equal measure. For more background, there's also this on wikipedia: [LINK]

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