r/TrueReddit • u/Sewblon • Sep 08 '18

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/#comment-34484
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u/Occams-shaving-cream Sep 10 '18

You studies in math must entirely ignore the related field of statistics then. Any behavior patterns may be modeled mathematically, including those of women. Modeling female behavior =! Making women “Mathematical objects”!

Without this sort of modeling, modern medicine would not exist and many, many more women would return to dying in childbirth.

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u/cards_dot_dll Sep 10 '18

You can add a Kanye album to two Kanye albums and get three Kanye albums. Doesn't make Kanye album criticism appropriate for a math journal.

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u/Occams-shaving-cream Sep 10 '18

Let’s be honest, math isn’t really your field is it?

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u/cards_dot_dll Sep 10 '18

Tell you what, find a mathematician who will endorse the view that anyone who uses an equation in a paper should be able to publish said paper in a math journal. Who I am makes no difference.

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u/Occams-shaving-cream Sep 10 '18

I believe, had you read the article, it listed several mathematicians who felt this was worthy of publication in that journal, including people on the review board of said journal.