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I have no sympathy for social science journals, but when you look at the details of this study, it's way less obvious that the rumor says it is. On the tens of articles they have proposed, the majority was rejected. The article "copied from Mein Kampf" was taking sentence from the book but changing words to create sentences that were scientifically correct (for example: "this social class is bad and we should avoid it" into "stress is bad and we should avoid it"), which means that the article content in itself had no reason to be refused.

It's very ironical that this study that was all about "bad science" since then created a totally whimsical rumor on the real situation.




Similarly, I read the one about dog parks, and if you approach it with the good faith notion that it wasn't just fabricated whole cloth, it reads like an okay-ish Master's level paper being submitted to an okay-ish journal. And features a decent sample size, which is a rare thing in the veterinary literature.




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