Again, you tell anecdotes. It's all about how you or a close friend of yours got humiliated by this or that academic at this or that point of your or his life. X interrupted you while you were speaking. That wasn't polite. The editors of the Y academic journal rejected your article on dubious grounds. I'm sure that hurt. I've had a few of my drafts rejected by journals, and sometimes I've been sure it's been because of reasons other than the quality of my submissions. But I am not sure my personal experience would be convincing proof that the journal and journals like it are all scams. I'm not questioning the truth in your stories. For all I know, they happened exactly as you tell them. I just believe that you're drawing inferences about academics, journals, etc. that go just a tiny bit beyond what a judicious analysis of your data would support.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > NYU sociology professor Jeff Goodwin unsubbed this morning. My guess is > that he got fed up with just one too many swipes at his colleague Vivek > Chibber. I really didn't have any idea what Goodwin's research project > was about but apparently it dovetailed with Chibber's, namely that it > was getting lonely out there in academia for hard-core Marxists. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
