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A climate science journal bit down hard on this ridiculous hoax.
A feminist glaciology
Posted on 03 Mar 16 by Paul Matthews • 8 Comments
Many readers will be familiar with the famous Sokal hoax paper, in which physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article on the “hermeneutics of quantum gravity” and got it published in a sociology journal. Other more recent examples of accepted papers include a completely computer-generated mathematics paper and a repeated request to be removed from a mailing list.
Now it seems that climate science has fallen for a similar joke paper. The journal Progress in Human Geography (impact factor 5, which is quite high) has published an article Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research.
Excerpts below are taken from just the first 3 pages of this 24-page masterpiece, plus a final quote from the conclusions. . . .
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A feminist glaciology
Posted on 03 Mar 16 by Paul Matthews • 8 Comments
Many readers will be familiar with the famous Sokal hoax paper, in which physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article on the “hermeneutics of quantum gravity” and got it published in a sociology journal. Other more recent examples of accepted papers include a completely computer-generated mathematics paper and a repeated request to be removed from a mailing list.
Now it seems that climate science has fallen for a similar joke paper. The journal Progress in Human Geography (impact factor 5, which is quite high) has published an article Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research.
Excerpts below are taken from just the first 3 pages of this 24-page masterpiece, plus a final quote from the conclusions. . . .
Continue reading →