http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2016/02/16/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/
Wow, this article is spot on.
I am not sure what field the author had in mind, but I think you will find it applies astonishingly well to the methods of certain parties in ME & CFS research
I think I will refer to Sir W. as "Lord Voldemort" from now on.
Here is an excerpt:
Wow, this article is spot on.
I am not sure what field the author had in mind, but I think you will find it applies astonishingly well to the methods of certain parties in ME & CFS research
I think I will refer to Sir W. as "Lord Voldemort" from now on.
Here is an excerpt:
A similar phenomenon can play out in debates in medicine. In the case of Lord Voldemort, the trick is to unleash so many fallacies, misrepresentations of evidence, and other misleading or erroneous statements — at such a pace, and with such little regard for the norms of careful scholarship and/or charitable academic discourse — that your opponents, who do, perhaps, feel bound by such norms, and who have better things to do with their time than to write rebuttals to each of your papers, face a dilemma. Either they can ignore you, or they can put their own research priorities on hold to try to combat the worst of your offenses.
It’s a lose-lose situation. Ignore you, and you win by default. Engage you, and you win like the pig in the proverb who enjoys hanging out in the mud.