Monday, September 15, 2014

Sayre's Law at work again …

… Shakespearean academics clash over 'conspiracy theories' —Telegraph. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



The one fellow's defense of his Holocaust-denier analogy is disingenuous. The comparison has become a loathsome cliché. And there are plenty of other ways of making his point about research. He also, obviously, doesn't want views published that disagree with his own, and the moment who could keep such a view from being publish, he made sure it wasn't.
I think the fellow from Stratford wrote the plays, but I'm open to hearing those who think otherwise.

2 comments:

  1. Isn't it bizarre in the first place, though, that "article rejected by journal's peer reviewers" is a new story?

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  2. I think the story is that it was ready to be published and then rejected after the new editor took over. Awful lot of dogmatism in the academy these days, it seems.

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