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The Importance of Academic Journals: John Stossel Doesn't Know What they Are
Season 25
Episode 16
Published 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Description
Below are seven big ideas that you should take from this chapter.
1. Having a body of knowledge is important in any field.
2. Disagreement followed by academic discourse enables a field to evolve.
3. Silencing opposing views results in cognitive inbreeding.
4. Academic journals are essential for disseminating new knowledge and for academic discourse within a field.
5. The process used to get scholarly articles published in an academic journal is much higher than that used to get an article published in a newspaper or magazine.
6. Having a body of knowledge that is shallow and disjointed is not optimal for academic discussions or TV interviews.
7. John Stossel does not know what an academic journal is.