An extensive list of namecalling for meta-researchers. This is an attempt to collect all the names people have been called for pointing out mistakes in other peoples work. If you'd like to add a name, click on this link or the pencil icon, edit the file and click submit (make a pull request).
Licence: CC0 see licence file (open, non copyright, do what you like, public domain)
- "Mean, shrill, angry nothings."
- online vigilantes
- self-appointed data police
- methodological terrorism (1)
- vicious bullies
- destructo-critics (1)
- god's chosen soldier in the great jihad (2)
- McCarthyist (or scientific McCarthyites)
- second stringers
- replication police
- Nazis
- Fascists
- Maffia
- shameless little bullies
- mean, shrill, angry nothings
- whiners
- the Stasi
- data detectives (3)
- destroy lives
- force graduates out of academia (1)
- assistant professors afraid to come up for tenure (1)
- colleagues at all career stages are leaving the field because of the sheer adversarial viciousness
- attack the person, not the work (1) ( this is bad by the way)
- mid-career people wondering how to protect their labs (1)
- senior faculty retiring early (1)
- behaving in seriously unethical ways
- unmoderated personal attacks (1)
- engaged in vicious, chilling behavior
- uncurated, unfiltered trash-talk (1)
- 1: column for the newsletter APS Observer leaked source
- 2: The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology - Chris Chambers Buy his book on amazon and visit Chris Chambers' university page here.
- 3: Ars Technica article - Cathleen O'Grady - 2017-04-24 https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/the-peer-reviewed-saga-of-mindless-eating-mindless-research-is-bad-too/
I don't think Susan Friske is a bad editor, bad person or bad scientist. In fact, I dont know anything about her. She does not deserve the hate and this is not a direct attack on her, cyberbullying is not a joke, I just really really like the names.