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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
This thread is an unending source of amusement.
Someone there found his ORCID andā¦ Itās not great: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2835-3521
He has basically nothing published, but has like 40 different āpreprintsā, read PDFs he uploaded to arxiv with no peer review.
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1 No he doesnāt? His Education lists A.S. in Engineering, A.S. in Computer Science, and B.S. in Mathematics, that anthropology claim seems completely made up.
Those āpapersā are gold, theyāre mostly a few pages long, and they span such a wild range of topics as:
Iāve never seen someone in such a dire need of a wedgie, come on man, you spend the hours of your life writing your farts into LaTeX and generating DOIs for them, this isnāt healthy.
nothing wrong with papers a few pages long, as long as they are concisely written and have supplementary information 10x that size. my last paper is 5 pages long, of which the last one are references only, and has 60+ pages of SI
Dunno, the funniest thing about them to me is that theyāre still divided into 7-8 sections, each one-paragraph long. Just a guy who was never told he was wrong in his life and his idea of what research looks like.
fucking WHAT
I am unfairly misrepresenting that for sneer purposes but if you want to see what happens when someone with typical cryptobro brainworms gets access to a paper-looking PDF template:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17616.99845
http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13443.99364
jaysus, mary, joseph and the wee donkey. (ESPECIALLY the wee donkey.)
he also has a personal site, itās linked on researchgate. i took psychic damage reading this, somebody force him to touch grass
oh goddess, heās already a bleeding muppet, and going to be a major crank. from the researchgate profile:
rÅnin! fucking! scholar!
eh iāve seen that before at least once and iām inclined to believe thereās much more of it that nobody cares to notice. on r/chemistry and r/organicchemistry there was a dude, 19, dramatic bitch, who read surface level philosophy and tried getting into ochem for some obscure reason. turns out he wanted to make some anticancer drugs and needs guidance. cool fine maybe get degree in ochem first so you donāt do any stupid avoidable mistakes. he wonāt listen
he tried to get into uni but if i have to guess he got rejected? in any case he didnāt learn anything but over time got into contact with some research group, at least thatās what he claimed and started homelab. (youād guess that some medchem research group at uni would have a wet lab, but it must be in other country and youāve never seen them).
so anyway our misunderstood hero starts cooking āanticancerā āmedsā in his living room. how does he know it works, did he made this, sent samples to biologists who would test it for him, or maybe compchem group would simulate it out? nope, heād just got an idea that it will work and thatās just as good, you know, his supreme rationality unrecognized by academic cabal guided him there. so he starts cooking, but does not know how. this included shit like distilling some flammable solvent on wicker table without clamps or anything that would actually make glassware stable. so every other step he asks for advice on really basic shit like heād learn in second year university course (BSc), or in first year of work in organic chemistry lab, his synthesis is avoidably dirty, his purifications are trash, three steps in he has painted himself into corner, yields drop to zero and he has no idea why or what now. this usually means that entire synthesis was shite from the beginning and itās time to go back to the drawing board.
(did i mention that he was a dramatic bitch? so he picked it up because he wanted to do something Good for Humanity, and if he fails then well he could just as well commit sewer slide. his first idea involved radioisotopes btw, all in his living room mind you. then objective shifted to āanti-rabies antiviralā where he missed the point of about everything he wanted to do. then went back to āanticancerā)
anyway this was his breaking point, after something like three or four people tried to explain politely that he really should get a degree first and set some objective that is not obviously pulled from his supremely rational ass, he started insulting everyone and what eventually earned him sitewide ban was a tirade about how heād genocide everyone who doesnāt recognize his genius, given opportunity (he compared himself to milosevic (he was serb))
anyway he also had medium blog and posted dick picks with face included from the same account. he made another one, but itās since abandoned. allegedly he also had 2 or 3 accounts before that
mind, i know the type from my usenet days. in polish usenet we had that crank called, i kid you not, expert, who presented himself as expert in almost everything.
some time later one bored person did an official query, and learned that apparently the fucker managed to get himself onto the state-approved list of expert witnesses in the area of computing (unclear if that predated his usenet antics or not)ā¦
(that was mid-to-late 1990s, the cocom was just in the process of being lifted, and the judiciary really did not have much knowledge about the technical aspects of computing)
if his claim of ā20 years studying mathā is anywhere close to accurate heās already off the deep end, unless heās counting in everything from kindergarten up. considering heās a cryptobro it already happened pre-pandemic
Hey, he didnāt update the website to include his research interest in AI, huh, wonder how long heās been a samurai of that
Theyāre all blog posts that refer to no actual work, my favorite is the one where he advocates for his blog posts to be accepted to journals: Call to Research: A need for a new paper format
This is mostly whining about how heās totally an academic and people should take him seriously.
Jesus cinnamon crunch Christ. At least the blog posts are mercifully short. He somehow manages to have antivaxx nonsense there as well??
This is doubly funny because that already exists, at least in Computer Science, and is called a vision paper. You still need to put in a lot of work, perhaps more, into the bibliography and, you know, actually having compelling stuff to say.
heās the very model of a modern crypto-douchebag.
wait, wait. thatās basically the bootcamp level of education, no?
(nothing wrong with that per se, i donāt have any c. s. degree anyways and yet i work in the field for years. but the gall of a dude who has finished a few two-year courses to tell fucking law professionals that they donāt know enoughā¦ this is indeed the threadnought-level of recklessness.)
the sheer hubris of that individual putting out preprints, as if making this available before peer review would hasten chatgpt rapture (none of that shite will be ever published)
I know essentally nothing about the US education system butā¦
If youāre gonna pull credentalist bullshit, maybe at least have the credentials? You took us there mate, I wouldnāt be pulling your degrees up if you didnāt first talk about how formally educated you areā¦
he does seem to have carefully cultivated case of engineer disease
also itās not āalmost allā preprints, itās all preprints, just one repository calls these papers
he didnāt discover yet predatory journals, it all could have been published for a small fee like with this one (contains mind numbing level of conspiracy-theoretic rambling and related brainworms) hxxps://uraniumisagenocidegiant[.]com/ (you have been warned)
Thereās one classified as āSSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal articleā, I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the āalmostā, but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an āelectronic journalā? No fucking idea.
yeah that one is sneaky but itās a repository, not a journal with peer review
Amazing.
I could āpublishā my homeworks from the 5yrs of college onto arxiv and thatād be a more scientifically valuable endeavour. Better formatted, too.
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