The androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial.
That’s how we began. We used this preposterous sentence to open a “paper” consisting of 3,000 words of utter nonsense posing as academic scholarship.
Titled, “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” our paper “argues” that “The penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct.We argue that the conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ but as a gender-performative, highly fluid social construct.”…our should-never-have-been-published paper was published in the open-access…peer-reviewed journal Cogent Social Sciences.
Assuming the pen names “Jamie Lindsay” and “Peter Boyle,” and writing for the fictitious “Southeast Independent Social Research Group,” we wrote an absurd paper loosely composed in the style of post-structuralist discursive gender theory. The paper was ridiculous by intention…
The reviewers were amazingly encouraging, giving us very high marks in nearly every category.
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They didn’t accept the paper outright, however….We effortlessly completed [revisions] in about two hours…
One of the biggest questions facing peer-reviewed publishing is, “Are pay-to-publish, open-access journals the future of academic publishing?” We seem to have answered that question with a large red, “No!”
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