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:

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

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Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/

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