you have not yet begun to see wrath

[rm]

Although, the cat macros are now out to play.

http://ogi-ogas.livejournal.com/3930.html

ETA: Info about publisher, agent for book in comments to recent posts of mine. You know, if you're curious.

ETA:

Entries have been locked.
If you have screen caps (that might be of interest in terms of addressing LJ ToS issues, legality of surveying minors or ethics issues publisher and agent might wish to be aware of), bring 'em.

http://i31.tinypic.com/2vx0mu0.png
http://www.fithfath.com/3930.html
http://jonquil.livejournal.com/891307.html (with text retyped so that visually impaired folks using assistive devices can get it)



Also, suggest people cap the "discourse" oh shaggirl's LJ lest that gets locked down too.

Comments

[rednwhiterose.livejournal.com]

I love it when the macros come out...it makes everything funny, instead of headache inducing.

*sits back and munches popcorn*

[such_heights]

Oh my god. I just -- oh my god. This level of fail is actually hypnotizing!

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity...

Have they provided any sort of professional CV?

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yes, they are BU grads. BU has, after a blizzard of emails, explained this project is in no way affiliated with the University.

[argentla.livejournal.com]

I am increasingly thinking that this is some sort of elaborate prank.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Likewise.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I sent an email to the agent, asking if offending and alienating the very people supposedly under the microscope was part of some insane marketing strategy.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I suspect they think that we're such a small subset of the population our opinions are irrelevant.

[laufeyette.livejournal.com]

Arg. It suddenly gives a 403 Forbidden error. Did it go private or is it just me?

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

No, it's been f'locked. Presumably Dr Ogas was fed up of the cat macros.

Pity in some ways. I wanted to look up a WHARRGARBL macro, because that's pretty much how I reacted to this fail.

[gairid.livejournal.com]

The link doesn't work for me, though I think I know well enough where to go by now.

Seeing how this person only answers select questions and ignores any and all criticism, I'm beginning to think it's an elaborate troll-thing. Substtuting 'she-male' for 'transsexual' with a subsequent ridiculous disclaimer reinforces the troll-thing idea as does the reveal regarding the communication with UB. No follow up or mention of that by the OP? Fetid, I think.

[6-bleen-7.livejournal.com]

I agree that the "shemale" thing just screams "troll," but I have seen actual scientists doing peer-reviewed research act this badly. It's rare, but it does happen.

Oops! The post just went down. I was going to say that the weakest link was his description of cortical pathways (in the brain), which didn't sound quote right, but it looks like I won't be able to furnish a quote.

[6-bleen-7.livejournal.com]

Wow. The more I read about this dude's faking a scientific study the more unbelievable it gets. Claiming to be performing research under the aegis of an institution one is no longer affiliated with borders on criminal, not to mention being an automatic deal-breaker with regard to research funding. I would be very interested in who, if anyone, is really sponsoring that project. I suspect nobody, since clearly no IRB was consulted and none of the protocols for human-subjects research have been followed.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

According to a comment at jonquil's place, the agency has responded with a polite noncommittal, which is possibly either a "please go away" or "uh-oh, better look into this".

[cozzene.livejournal.com]

Linky not working.

[villeinage.livejournal.com]

It's locked.

Did anyone screencap?

Because I saw it, and macros were awesome in their vengeance.

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I saw several people say they were capping as they went, so I feel certain this has been preserved for the sake of history. AND SCIENCE!

[gement.livejournal.com]

Annnnnd he's done. All entries F-locked. I do hope people took pictures.

BAHLETED

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

(guest commenter is a guest)

I'm not really *~in~* wider fandom, but I did want to disseminate this cap of what I had open right before it was deleted for anyone who wants to to reference.

http://tinypic.com/r/rc4qkg/3

Also, on behalf on the community of actual cog-psych researchers, sorry for all that asshabberdashery.

Re: BAHLETED

[rm.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. Word getting out.

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

I got "Forbidden- you do not have permission to access on this server"

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

It looks like they deleted all posts on the livejournal.

Someone call the waaaaaahmulance!

[kshandra]

It's on its way.

[marcmagus]

The other tinypic is small on my display, so here's mine. I can crop and/or look for alternate hosting if it would help.

http://i31.tinypic.com/2vx0mu0.png

[marcmagus]

I've just taken a series of caps of what I had open of page 3 of the comments, attempting to make sure each full comment got into at least one frame with source info. I'd be happy to send them as an archive to anybody who wants to do anything useful with them.

Also, this has the rest of the text of that top-level post, since my display wasn't quite big enough: http://tinypic.com/r/2vads2r/3

I assume I can't usefully download page source to get something, but I'll give it a try anyway.

[alchemia.livejournal.com]

page 3: http://www.fithfath.com/3930.html

[villeinage.livejournal.com]

That page is a thing of beauty and should live forever. Thanks!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I got two of his last post, just in the nick of time.

http://jonquil.livejournal.com/891307.html

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

On second thought, I did a full copy-paste of the text here:
http://jonquil.livejournal.com/891399.html

I'm going to save the full HTML of the page I still have open on my hard drive, just for LOLZ. Anything else somebody want done while it's still in my cache? Note that I can't go forward or back to comments; all I've got is the page I was on, which was the third.

[villeinage.livejournal.com]

Posterity FTW!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Screencap-o-rama thanks to DWther damned_colonial:

http://scrapbook.infotrope.net/public/2009-09/'

Link mentioned in the seventh screencap

Anyone who can help with the GeekFeminism's writeup of SurveyFail would be welcomed.

/eta: if anyone 'capped or otherwise transcribed the fatal comment that proved that O. Ogas was backtracking IPs? In full contravention of IRB rules and common decency? I hope that didn't fall through the memory hole.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Has someone caught his cv on the BU website? When you hit the research tab it has an updage re: book sinage and that should be preserved to see how he's using BUs resources at least peripherlly for this project (sorry, spelling fail).

[herself_nyc]

I was telling my pal L about this and we looked at Ogi's page on the BU website — her immediate response to his CV and picture was that he must be Asperger's. I think she's right. Which doesn't excuse this crazy survey and book topic but does go a ways towards explaining it ….

[lindra.livejournal.com]

Can we not bring more offensive stereotypes into a discussion that's already full of fail?

Thank you!

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

So wait...he's claiming to be doing this research under the auspices of BU?

Time to bypass the mo'fo and go directly to the BU Institutional Review Board. If he's legitimately doing research on human subjects (and yes, a survey counts as such), he has to get approval from his IRB -- including giving them a copy of the survey.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

He was implying that but no, this whole thing is for a popular book. And BU already has been contacted and disavowed any connection to the project, requested they stop using the BU resources for it.

[fail-machine.livejournal.com]

It looks like you have a lot of screencaps, but I wanted to drop by with links to my screencaps, just in case. I have all of his *edited* posts (not the originals, sorry!), and the *edited* survey questions. They are uploaded to mediafire here: http://www.mediafire.com/fail_machine

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

The annoying part that I see?

I have a very good friend who is writing her PhD thesis on fan culture. She's a reading/literacy specialist and is, in essence, attempting to show how fandom is a legitimate subculture (as an affinity group) and then, from that, how to bring it into classrooms to help students learn to read. She's got IRB approval and will be conducting a survey and follow-up interviews at a con later this year.

She's NOT doing this to primarily sell a book (although if she does, it will be more of an academic sort), but to try and fill a research gap in how to reach students with learning/literacy difficulties.

And it chaps my hide that this bobohaid has now potentially made it more difficult for her because fans may be nervous she's got the same intention as he has. I've seen the survey -- I know it isn't.

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

Make that two people irritated on your friend's behalf; the goals that she has for her research are beyond admirable. My sister has a freshly minted PhD in psych, and I have half a notion of passing along this guy's sloppy-ass survey to her; after her forehead vein bulges out, she'd fall to the floor laughing.

[elf]

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