[jfengel]

they demonstrated the fact that these academic disciplines are full of bullshit producers and consumers

That seems like an unwarranted conclusion. They found a gullible journal -- one that nobody has ever heard of except in connection to this hoax. Extending that to "the entire discipline is faulty" sounds like exactly the sort of faulty logic that we scientists are supposed to avoid.

If I wrote a journal article that consisted of one data point and drew a line from it I'd be blacklisted. Why on earth are we patting ourselves on the back for making precisely this mistake?

[asguy]

They found 7 gullible journals that accepted their papers. 4 of which got published before the project was discovered.

[upupupandaway]

and one of the papers got a special prize.