It looks like we will soon enter a world where we have to lean into author reputation to separate the wheat from the chaff. And if you lack a reputation, well...
STEM people used to laugh at humanities’ response to Sokal affair (can’ separate wheat from chaff reliably, to avoid further embarrassment let’s rely on reputation), and now it returned to bite them.
It looks like we will soon enter a world where we have to lean into author reputation to separate the wheat from the chaff. And if you lack a reputation, well...
STEM people used to laugh at humanities’ response to Sokal affair (can’ separate wheat from chaff reliably, to avoid further embarrassment let’s rely on reputation), and now it returned to bite them.