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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/01/over-100-published-science-journal-articles-just-gibberish/

Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them.

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i think it's estimated that 40% of papers about new drugs are written wholly by pharmaceutical companies that then assign paid-off doctors as authors. i sort of assume that whole swaths of academia are just frauds and hucksters.
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The_Boourns_Identity posted:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/01/over-100-published-science-journal-articles-just-gibberish/

Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them.



what a shame.

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getfiscal posted:

i think it's estimated that 40% of papers about new drugs are written wholly by pharmaceutical companies that then assign paid-off doctors as authors. i sort of assume that whole swaths of academia are just frauds and hucksters.

this, but unironically, but in a hip self-aware way

#6
Liberal arts academia is the worst of the bunch, burn down all the liberal arts buildings, death to law school and poli sci degrees
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Lykourgos posted:

Liberal arts academia is the worst of the bunch, burn down all the liberal arts buildings, death to law school and poli sci degrees



are you joking or have you genuinely come to hate everything you stand for

#8
are you joking or have you never read a single one of my posts

ive never had a kind word to say about lib arts academia
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Lykourgos posted:

are you joking or have you never read a single one of my posts

ive never had a kind word to say about lib arts academia



you mean your hundreds of posts in the "lawyer and law school megathread" on somethingawful, your 10,000 posts on the supremacy of the classics here, there, and everywhere, or your constant, sneering denunciations of the "unlearned?"

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precisely. my hundreds of posts in the lawyer and law school megathread denouncing law school and large swathes of the legal field, my 10,000 posts on the supremacy of the classics denouncing lib arts academics, and my constant, sneering denunciations of the unlearned who are held up as especially learned. please pay attention when you read my posts.
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liberal arts are heavily anchored in the classics, though. "teaching the classics" is just liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?
#12
Time to get real Jobs
#13
To err is n00bish. To pwn is divine - Steve Jobs
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VoxNihili posted:

liberal arts are heavily anchored in the classics, though. "teaching the classics" is just liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?



they're not though, "teaching the classics" isn't liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?

you clearly haven't read my posts

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did you go to St. Johns lykourgos or is it your constant and enduring shame that you did not?
#16
I like learning about "classical" economics
#17
question how many new articles can we write about shakespeare

answer enough to sustain a multibillion dollar industry surviving on government subsidies and the issuance of debt to 18 year olds with no skills or prospects
#18
shakespeare was a gay. controversial new thesis from 29 year old john shumacher being paid 70,000/year to teach adults how to use commas in microsoft word
#19
becoming a university studentw as the dumbest thing i ever did & pretty much ruined my life
#20

MindMaster posted:

becoming a university studentw as the dumbest thing i ever did & pretty much ruined my life



same. but still can't wait to do some graduate degrees now.

#21
it was a bad jig to begin with!
#22
personally my university degree taught me a lot of skills that would have been relevant and applicable in my chosen future career however my failure to capitalize on the opportunity thus presented stems entirely from my own personal inadequacies oops
#23
i just want a job. i want to farm crops like in harvest moon only w/ TRAECTOR and be a simple idiot
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i wanted a job too, i cried out every day "Lord please send me some work!!!!" then he did and i almost immediately longed to be unemployed again
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that's what happens when you work in the private sector.
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tpaine posted:

littlegreenpills posted:

i wanted a job too, i cried out every day "Lord please send me some work!!!!" then he did and i almost immediately longed to be unemployed again

people i work under can't do extremely basic math and send out emails riddled with the kind of grammar mistakes you'd expect from a 12 year old on aol



thankfully we live in a meritocracy, so in a few short decades you may have the chance to do the work of their collective positions, for a fraction of their benefits

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VoxNihili posted:

liberal arts are heavily anchored in the classics, though. "teaching the classics" is just liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?



realize who you're responding to and understand this is what it feels like to be owned

#32
however this is not what it's like when worlds collide
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peepaw posted:

VoxNihili posted:

liberal arts are heavily anchored in the classics, though. "teaching the classics" is just liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?

realize who you're responding to and understand this is what it feels like to be owned



oh no!

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#36
punk goes pop

#37
drewsif stalin is not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need right now

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