{"id":73068,"date":"2017-06-28T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73068"},"modified":"2017-06-28T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T11:34:14","slug":"the-perceptivity-of-the-pseudonymic-integrity-of-the-peer-review-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73068","title":{"rendered":"The Perceptivity of the Pseudonymic Integrity of the Peer Review Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be some misconstrued perception\u00a0 of the intrinsic value of the peer review process, prepublication or otherwise. In fact, peer review is not a requirement for publication under any circumstances. It is fascinating to observe people with presumptive and uninformed notions tumble all over themselves, and trip themselves up, over the preposterous notion that peer review is a requirement for validity or for publication.<\/p>\n

In an effort to clearly demonstrate the lack of real-world, hard-nosed value of the peer review process, two authors engaged themselves in the time and effort required to produce an article for prepublication peer review.<\/p>\n

If you take the time to read their article, which was published after peer review, you begin to understand why that phrase conjures up a vision of two guys at a urinal discussing football scores while they gaze at the tiles on the walls instead of engaging in penis measuring.<\/p>\n

The article to which I refer was titled \u2018The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct\u2019. Their report on the valueless process of peer review is at this link.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/reading_room\/conceptual-penis-social-contruct-sokal-style-hoax-on-gender-studies\/<\/a><\/p>\n

These two post-doctoral operatives were kind enough to archive a pdf of the article itself, for your enjoyment.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/downloads\/conceptual-penis\/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that the entire article was, in their words, \u2018stuffed full of jargon\u2019, nonsense, pejorative slang for genitals, and so-called \u2018red flag phrases\u2019, which was essentially a collection of contemporary buzzwords and vocabulary quickly and easily recognized for their alleged \u2018trigger-reactive\u2019 misusage. They used every possible means of distortionate vocabulary available in the English language to achieve their goal. Some examples include \u2018toxic hypermasculinity\u2019, \u2018man-spreading \u2013 akin to raping the environment\u2019, etc.<\/p>\n

The abstract for the hoax paper is as follows:<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/u><\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0Anatomical penises may exist, but as pre-operative transgendered women also have anatomical penises, the penis vis-\u00e0-vis maleness is an incoherent construct. We argue that the conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ but as a social construct isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity. Through detailed poststructuralist discursive criticism and the example of\u00a0climate change, this paper will challenge the prevailing and damaging social trope that penises are best understood as the male sexual organ and reassign it a more fitting role as a type of masculine performance.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a hoax, created with the sole intent to expose the idiocy embedded in the misperception that peer review adds true value to publication.<\/p>\n

Since peer review is a prepublication courtesy, not a requirement, it is plain to anyone with a working brain that the process of peer review has acquired the precise value of my previous example: two guys chatting each other up at the urinal.<\/p>\n

This is a prime example of the lack of value of so-called peer review.\u00a0 Where it should have some conscious value as a feedback mechanism, it is, instead a joke on the ignorant and uninformed twits who are now in a feeding frenzy over the \u2018not peer-reviewed\u2019 status of a study on wage levels and resultant economic impacts in the Seattle, WA, area.<\/p>\n

Obviously, in the title to this article, I intentionally pursued the use of polysyllabics, whether or not they were correctly employed, simply as a means of pressing home the point, that peer review is becoming overrated, in many instances being nothing more than a brief perusal of a submitted paper. Some people are easily impressed<\/p>\n

Maybe it would have more value if peer review was<\/em> a dick-measuring contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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