Joe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

PowerfulJRE

Topic

academic hoax papers

Format

podcast

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2019

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From the original HN conversations

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• 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]

• 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]

• > 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 …