A popular Twitter account that highlighted ridiculous academic papers from the social sciences and humanities — some taxpayer-funded — was abruptly deleted recently apparently because critics threatened to expose the name of the anonymous tweeter, who feared career-ending retaliation from campus colleagues.
The threats against @Real_PeerReview are telling about the state of soft academia. The tweeter’s primary activity was simply publishing links to abstracts and highlighting one or two sentences from their summaries. If the scholars believed their work had value, they would presumably appreciate wide distribution.
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http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/11/social-justice-warriors-declare-battle-on-colleague-for-exposing-their-research/#ixzz4BTl5pcJu
The threats against @Real_PeerReview are telling about the state of soft academia. The tweeter’s primary activity was simply publishing links to abstracts and highlighting one or two sentences from their summaries. If the scholars believed their work had value, they would presumably appreciate wide distribution.
(RELATED: 13 Of The Dumbest Academic Papers To Actually Get Published)
mo
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/11/social-justice-warriors-declare-battle-on-colleague-for-exposing-their-research/#ixzz4BTl5pcJu