In Story 4 of my personal experiences with ideological drama in academic peer review, we learned how incompetent and biased editors and reviewers slow the review process. This then delays findings, which go against their beliefs, from being published. We also learned of the increased tendency for such delays to occur when the research in question deals with sex or gender. In the case of
Just read the paper - it's a fascinating & thought-provoking article. Thank you for your dedication & perseverance in pushing it through the peer review process.
We trust peer reviewers & editors to be objective & unbiased in their assessment of a paper, but experiences such as yours highlight the need for greater & transparency in the journey from submission to publication (or rejection). If an article is rejected, the reasons for its rejection should be anchored in scientific methodology, not idealogical popularity.
Meanwhile, an editor who held back an article for publication, only for said article to achieve the status of Most Highly Accessed in the year it was finally released, should be reviewed by the board & expected to justify his or her decision
Damn. Dr Nuzzo, your patience and perseverance is amazing. Two years? Just goes to show you when you go against the gynocentric grain you get slow-listed. Let's hope DEI gets hammered.
The editor and his staff were looking for reasons not to publish the paper, anxious no doubt that accepting it would make them look bad. It's good that the article history was published with the article; curious people will wonder what took so long and perhaps give them second thoughts about submitting work to this journal. Great that you tracked the editor's tweet history, which reveals what he was really concerned about, i.e., his standing in the academic community. Congratulations on the impressive success of the paper, which should give him something to think about. I would not expect him to celebrate your success!
To add insult to injury, this 'controversial' paper came to conclusions that, in any sane society, would be so bleeding obvious that people would wonder why anyone would bother to research it.
Thank you for your effort and your dogged determination. As a genitally mutilated man, it absolutely horrifies me that the intactivist movement is making such little headway in the fight to keep male babies from having their penises butchered while FGM is universally condemned in this country as barbaric.
Did you know that FGM is not against the law, in the US, specifically because of sex discrimination laws? It's still legal to slice and mangle little girls clitorises and labia because to outlaw it would require outlawing male 'circumcision' and the political will to do that is just not there.
Ooohhh.. I'm sorry.. I didn't realise, though I read your post, that this was for an article on the 'The International Journal of Human Rights'... now that I realise this.. this makes it even worse...
How frustrating to write stuff for such a journal when we all know that it is wrong to cut off parts of some else body when they: 1. are not even asked in the first place; 2. force was used; 3. if someone doesn't ask all by themselves to have it done, then it is mutilation... let's call a spade a spade here...
I was mutilated..because my father, who was not mutilated, found it to hard to keep his foreskin clean.. however, he worked in the Bush of Australia in the 1920's and thus found it hard to get water etc., so I am told !!! But my brothers and I grew up in the suburbs of a City!!!
That's akin to cutting off someones ears because the parents/society decide the child will never listen to the Opera because the parents don't like the Opera... it is Mutilation and its fucked up...
AND, another thing.. while I'm climbing onto my soap box.. just something left field; do these parents realise what it is like to be in a gay chat room OR even a mixed chat room where someone says, male or female, "oh I prefer cut".. as if it is a fashion option!!!!!!
Imagine if I said, "oh I prefer my women to have no clitoris/labia.. " Imagine the outrage towards me...
It wasn't until I started reading Mens Activist groups that I even thought twice about 'circumcision'...
Just read the paper - it's a fascinating & thought-provoking article. Thank you for your dedication & perseverance in pushing it through the peer review process.
We trust peer reviewers & editors to be objective & unbiased in their assessment of a paper, but experiences such as yours highlight the need for greater & transparency in the journey from submission to publication (or rejection). If an article is rejected, the reasons for its rejection should be anchored in scientific methodology, not idealogical popularity.
Meanwhile, an editor who held back an article for publication, only for said article to achieve the status of Most Highly Accessed in the year it was finally released, should be reviewed by the board & expected to justify his or her decision
Damn. Dr Nuzzo, your patience and perseverance is amazing. Two years? Just goes to show you when you go against the gynocentric grain you get slow-listed. Let's hope DEI gets hammered.
The editor and his staff were looking for reasons not to publish the paper, anxious no doubt that accepting it would make them look bad. It's good that the article history was published with the article; curious people will wonder what took so long and perhaps give them second thoughts about submitting work to this journal. Great that you tracked the editor's tweet history, which reveals what he was really concerned about, i.e., his standing in the academic community. Congratulations on the impressive success of the paper, which should give him something to think about. I would not expect him to celebrate your success!
To add insult to injury, this 'controversial' paper came to conclusions that, in any sane society, would be so bleeding obvious that people would wonder why anyone would bother to research it.
Thank you for your effort and your dogged determination. As a genitally mutilated man, it absolutely horrifies me that the intactivist movement is making such little headway in the fight to keep male babies from having their penises butchered while FGM is universally condemned in this country as barbaric.
Did you know that FGM is not against the law, in the US, specifically because of sex discrimination laws? It's still legal to slice and mangle little girls clitorises and labia because to outlaw it would require outlawing male 'circumcision' and the political will to do that is just not there.
Seems nothing has changed since the trials of Socrates or Galileo.
Time to publish your own journal!
Thank you James Nuzzo..
Ooohhh.. I'm sorry.. I didn't realise, though I read your post, that this was for an article on the 'The International Journal of Human Rights'... now that I realise this.. this makes it even worse...
How frustrating to write stuff for such a journal when we all know that it is wrong to cut off parts of some else body when they: 1. are not even asked in the first place; 2. force was used; 3. if someone doesn't ask all by themselves to have it done, then it is mutilation... let's call a spade a spade here...
I was mutilated..because my father, who was not mutilated, found it to hard to keep his foreskin clean.. however, he worked in the Bush of Australia in the 1920's and thus found it hard to get water etc., so I am told !!! But my brothers and I grew up in the suburbs of a City!!!
That's akin to cutting off someones ears because the parents/society decide the child will never listen to the Opera because the parents don't like the Opera... it is Mutilation and its fucked up...
AND, another thing.. while I'm climbing onto my soap box.. just something left field; do these parents realise what it is like to be in a gay chat room OR even a mixed chat room where someone says, male or female, "oh I prefer cut".. as if it is a fashion option!!!!!!
Imagine if I said, "oh I prefer my women to have no clitoris/labia.. " Imagine the outrage towards me...
It wasn't until I started reading Mens Activist groups that I even thought twice about 'circumcision'...
I found this interesting: Anatomy of the Penis: Penile and Foreskin Neurology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmToXLVrZ7c&t=808s