User talk:Escandar

Glad you've admitted it's just a magazine, not a (peer-reviewed) journal. Now, if only you'd also admit in your juvenile rant that Relentless Struggle is self-published, we'd having nothing to disagree about.--130.15.122.136 (talk) 19:35, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

REPLY: from Escandar (9 May 2020) What is truly amazing is your "Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen". A journal, in the dictionary, is "any general interest publication". The DR calls itself a "semi-academic" journal and has never claimed to be peer-reviewed, though some of their articles *are* peer-reviewed (sent to experts for editing and criticism).

Only a truly small-minded, pedantic, and mean academic would insist on changing the term "journal" to "magazine" as many times as you have done, when it is an accepted consensus (outside rarefied academic circles apparently) to refer to journals like the DR informally as "publication", "magazine", "journal" etc. interchangeably.

Much of the time peer-review is a pretentious farce anyway, and has been proven to be corrupt by various spoofs:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/rabble-rouser/201810/intellectual-corruption-and-peer-review

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/opinion/2018/10/05/universities-get-schooled-on-breastaurants-and-fat-bodybuilding.html

https://quillette.com/2018/10/01/the-grievance-studies-scandal-five-academics-respond/

Secondly, it is "Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen" for you to insist that Durnovaria is not a new and promising startup press (at a time when publishers are closing everywhere and facing unprecedented pressures). For some reason that proves nothing, you belittle the initiative as a "self-publisher". Do you consider yourself an enemy of small, free, and independent presses? Are you the enemy of authentic entrepreneurial startups? Do you admire only big corporate publishers and tax-funded academic publishers of rubbish? Why? What are you trying to prove.

Honestly narcissist academics like yourself live too much inside your own bubble. Cut yourself off from a salary (try it) and see how long you survive competing with us out in the world of unsalaried entrepreneurs. Good luck! Escandar (talk) 12:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Wow, what a juvenile, angry, ignorant response from Champion...or are you one of his surrogates? Anyhow, it's strange that you alt-righters have to make your own journals and presses so as to avoid peer review, but carry on. I mean the unfounded claim to have 800 subscribers? Clearly your message is resonating widely! Keep the luck for yourself, you clearly need it XD 130.15.122.136 (talk) 20:37, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

It was obvious from the start that 130.15.122.136 had not read any physical copies of The Dorchester Review, published twice a year in print since 2011 in editions of 100 pages each. The DR puts very little of its material online for free -- because hundreds of customers are willing to pay for getting it in print twice a year. I am sure they would send you some complimentary copies if you provide an address. Then you could actually read one.

Nor has 130.15.122.136 read Champion's book, Relentless Struggle, in which the Acknowledgments assert (there is no reason to disbelieve them) that the MS. was in fact peer-reviewed by Prof. J.L. Granatstein, by two respected Army Colonels who have Ph.D.s (Col Howard Coombs and Col Paul Taillon of Royal Military College in Kingston) and by an "unnamed" Canadian Major-General. Looks like the sponsor of the book, a LCol with 30-plus years experience, also reviewed it. Your problem, 130.15.122.136, is that your rants and wiki sabotage are merely based on your prejudice and blindspots, not on facts. Escandar (talk) 12:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Ah right, you are a surrogate...Champion masquerades on here as Cuntingleaf. But obviously if the reviewers can be named, it's clearly not a proper (double-blind) peer review! Your ignorance of the basic principles of scholarship is hilarious but also alarming, since you consider the little rag to be an academic journal and pass off self-published books as academic as well.130.15.122.136 (talk) 15:16, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, yeah Escandar's offer stands: send us a postcard or something with an address on it and we'd be happy to send you a free copy of the publication. No hard feelings. Huntingleaf (talk) 19:22, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Dishonest edits!
Those edits of yours are dishonest, because they do not respect what the sources say. This behaviour is unacceptable. Veverve (talk) 23:10, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

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