In Response to Lemke: Where You See a Forest, I Just See Detritus.
In Response to Lemke: Where You See a Forest, I Just See Detritus.
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DOI:
10.1097/jom.0000000000002342
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发表时间:
2021-11-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Kelly KM
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作者:
Kelly KM
To the Editor: M y co-authors and I 1 had collectively decided not to spend additional time addressing Kenneth Lemke’s response 2 to our rebuttal of his TWH editorial. 3 However, I later became preoccupied with his comments during an unexpected hospitalization that followed soon after my recent planned retirement. The outcome of that time of contemplation was the decision that I need to respond. My point is simple. I do not want graduate students, young scholars, or any others to think of Lemke’s JOEM writings as exemplars of how to conduct scholarly discourse.Although I continue to be baffled by JOEM’s publication of Lemke’s problematic editorial, 3 I am encouraged by the Journal’s willingness to publish his response. 2 In his response to our comments, Lemke acknowledges the poor scholarship in his editorial and, in the process of doing so, continues to demonstrate his academic deficiencies. As an anthropologist immersed in systems theory since the 1970s, I was astonished to read an editorial by an assistant professor in a departmentofsocialsciences 4 proclaiming that the social sciences are grounded in a ‘‘Newtonian Paradigm.’’3 Moreover, as research scientist, who has been involved in efforts to refine