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?

[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.

[laufeyette.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

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.

[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.

[villeinage.livejournal.com]

It's locked.

Did anyone screencap?

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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!

Re: BAHLETED

[rm.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. Word getting out.

[laufeyette.livejournal.com]

Damn. I had my fierce Lafayette .gifs locked and loaded, too. Oh well.

Re: BAHLETED

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

I actually just noticed that there's some tinyweirdness up with it. Let me try again.

[rm.livejournal.com]

We are collecting screencaps. See my edits to post.

Re: BAHLETED

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

*sigh* So, I apparently fail at turning screengrabs into usable images.

I had to make it into a PDF, downloadable here (http://www.sendspace.com/file/obhv23). It's of the (ugh) "she-male" post from today, with most comments unfolded.