[throw away account as I am a recovering academic and wouldn't want to impact colleagues who have not been able to escape]
Everyone is distracted by the politics here when the real story is the effort.
Three people layman to these fields achieved a near tenure track publication list/ratio in a little over a year. I have a STEM PhD and I know that me and three of my friends couldn't do the same if we tried in a closely related STEM discipline much less an entirely different field.
Hypatia is the journal of record for feminist philosophy (and one of the few respected feminist journals in general). It should not be possible to go from 0 to published in a "real" top tier journal. If the paper is "not too crazy" that's even more damning! They produced a "real" paper as a joke? Do you really think that these same authors could get a paper published in The International Journal of Computer Vision in a little less than a year even if they were using fraudulent data? It would take them two years to know what they could and couldn't fake without being caught.
If the liberal arts don't want the sneering dismissal of their fields as low effort to become culturally entrenched they need to dump or reform the "X studies" departments and journals.
Everyone is distracted by the politics here when the real story is the effort.
Three people layman to these fields achieved a near tenure track publication list/ratio in a little over a year. I have a STEM PhD and I know that me and three of my friends couldn't do the same if we tried in a closely related STEM discipline much less an entirely different field.
Hypatia is the journal of record for feminist philosophy (and one of the few respected feminist journals in general). It should not be possible to go from 0 to published in a "real" top tier journal. If the paper is "not too crazy" that's even more damning! They produced a "real" paper as a joke? Do you really think that these same authors could get a paper published in The International Journal of Computer Vision in a little less than a year even if they were using fraudulent data? It would take them two years to know what they could and couldn't fake without being caught.
If the liberal arts don't want the sneering dismissal of their fields as low effort to become culturally entrenched they need to dump or reform the "X studies" departments and journals.