Interpreter is now reprinting old content

[drumdude]

Counting is indeed hard, even for the fine folks at Interpreter. I’ve attached photos showing the gaps in the Friday articles this year. Of course we are so mendacious that perhaps one of us logged into the website and removed the articles from the list. That would be a plausible mopologetic explanation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241204153 ... e/?journal

Interpreter has published, and will have published, at least one journal article each and every Friday during the year 2024.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241204154 ... hings.html

[drumdude]

The gaps are filled with the following non-articles:


November 22: two book reviews

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ormon.html

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... storation/

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... of-Mormon/


October 11: a hasty narrative blog post from DCP

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... llage.html

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... a-village/

September 20: another book review (DCP calls it a “piece”)

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... oking.html

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... y-looking/

August 9: “ Newly published in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Nurture and Harvest: A Continued Conversation with The Annotated Book of Mormon,” written by Kevin Christensen”

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... tters.html

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... of-Mormon/


July 12: another editorial:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... -keys.html

“A thoroughly vicious and rage-fueled new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Who Holds the Keys?” written by Daniel C. Peterson”

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... -the-keys/

March 29: A hasty Easter message:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... riday.html

“ The person who was slated to write the Interpreter Foundation’s Easter message this year suffered a family emergency and, in the end, was unable to complete the essay in time for publication. I was too embarrassed to ask anybody else to fill in at so late a date — when it became clear that the expected essay would not be arriving, we were at the absolutely last back-up worst-case deadline — so, being reminded by my wife of an Easter 2023 sacrament meeting talk that I had given (and that, quite uncharacteristically, I had written fully out), I slightly modified that talk (which, I was reminded just this morning, I had also posted on this blog soon after its delivery) and I submitted it to the journal as a rather desperate substitute. I had too little time, really, to have done anything else. I apologize, and I beg your charitable forgiveness.”

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... -is-risen/

[Marcus]

The gaps are filled with the following non-articles:


November 22: two book reviews

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ormon.html

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... storation/

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... of-Mormon/


October 11: a hasty narrative blog post from DCP

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... llage.html

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... a-village/

September 20: another book review (DCP calls it a “piece”)
https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... y-looking/

July 12: another editorial:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... -keys.html

“A thoroughly vicious and rage-fueled new article has appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: “Who Holds the Keys?” written by Daniel C. Peterson”

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... -the-keys/

March 29: A hasty Easter message:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... riday.html

“ The person who was slated to write the Interpreter Foundation’s Easter message this year suffered a family emergency and, in the end, was unable to complete the essay in time for publication. I was too embarrassed to ask anybody else to fill in at so late a date — when it became clear that the expected essay would not be arriving, we were at the absolutely last back-up worst-case deadline — so, being reminded by my wife of an Easter 2023 sacrament meeting talk that I had given (and that, quite uncharacteristically, I had written fully out), I slightly modified that talk (which, I was reminded just this morning, I had also posted on this blog soon after its delivery) and I submitted it to the journal as a rather desperate substitute. I had too little time, really, to have done anything else. I apologize, and I beg your charitable forgiveness.”

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... -is-risen/

So, the Easter post was a reprint of not only an old talk, but also of a non-original blog entry. Tapir Dan the Plagiarizer strikes again.

[drumdude]

No Marcus, not a blog entry, it was a journal article.

As of last week, in addition to its blog entries and reprints and books and movies and radio broadcasts and conferences and the like, Interpreter has published at least one journal article on each of the past 645 consecutive Fridays.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241204154 ... hings.html

Really showcases the loose meaning when Interpreter calls itself a “journal of scholarship.” I wonder who ran the peer review on that article?

DCP makes a distinction between article, blog post, and book review, in the quote above. His own website makes a distinction between article, blog post, and book review. And then DCP lumps them all together when he wants to brag about the unbroken streak.

Really helps understand why he can so easily believe a tapir is a horse.

[Everybody Wang Chung]

Half Sphincter gets caught lying yet again. Folks, you can't make this stuff up.

[Doctor Scratch]

**MYTH DISPELLED**!!! Well done, Drumdude! This is absolutely devastating! It seemingly happens every year: after I released the Top Ten list, something pops up that would have definitely made it on the list.... Well, this will have to wait until next year, I suppose, but we can officially call it:

Interpreter's Streak of Posting Articles HAS BEEN BROKEN!

And it would appear that this has been going on for quite some time. How far back did you explore the article posting calendar, Drumdude? Regardless, this is without a doubt the biggest explosion of a Mopologetic myth since we obtained definitive proof that Mopologists are paid. It's also a huge repudiation of the President's silly criticisms of Bond, as it shows that, all along, the President has had to engage in grotesque equivocation in order to cover up the fact that Interpreter isn't actually living up to his claims.

[drumdude]

**MYTH DISPELLED**!!! Well done, Drumdude! This is absolutely devastating! It seemingly happens every year: after I released the Top Ten list, something pops up that would have definitely made it on the list.... Well, this will have to wait until next year, I suppose, but we can officially call it:

Interpreter's Streak of Posting Articles HAS BEEN BROKEN!

And it would appear that this has been going on for quite some time. How far back did you explore the article posting calendar, Drumdude? Regardless, this is without a doubt the biggest explosion of a Mopologetic myth since we obtained definitive proof that Mopologists are paid. It's also a huge repudiation of the President's silly criticisms of Bond, as it shows that, all along, the President has had to engage in grotesque equivocation in order to cover up the fact that Interpreter isn't actually living up to his claims.

Interpreter seems to categorize the postings into 3 groups: articles, essays, and reviews.

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... ry/article

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... gory/essay

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... ory/review




Counting up the totals:

203 journal entries in Interpreter are reviews, or about 26%.

69 journal entries in Interpreter are essays, or about 10%.

500 journal entries in Interpreter are articles, or about 64%.




In other words, Interpreter can easily be seen as a "junk journal" in which almost half of the "articles" aren't even original research.

A study put a hard number on the lack of citations many of these "junk journals" receive:

According to one study, 60% of articles published in predatory journals receive no citations over the five-year period following publication.

https://www.science.org/content/article ... -citations

In Interpreter's case, I think they would struggle to proffer a single example of one of Interpreter's articles being cited in another journal, much less have a citation rate as high as 40%.

[Everybody Wang Chung]

Counting up the totals:

203 journal entries in Interpreter are reviews, or about 26%.

69 journal entries in Interpreter are essays, or about 10%.

500 journal entries in Interpreter are articles, or about 64%.




In other words, Interpreter can easily be seen as a "junk journal" in which almost half of the "articles" aren't even original research.

A study put a hard number on the lack of citations many of these "junk journals" receive:

According to one study, 60% of articles published in predatory journals receive no citations over the five-year period following publication.

https://www.science.org/content/article ... -citations

In Interpreter's case, I think they would struggle to proffer a single example of one of Interpreter's articles being cited in another journal, much less have a citation rate as high as 40%.

The President and his "junk journal" have provided countless hours of entertainment. Beyond that, it truly is a junk journal in every sense of the definition.

[Doctor Scratch]

This is all very, very, richly satisfying. I'm looking forward to Friday! And, indeed, every Friday hereafter, since we will be able to say, every single time that the President makes a claim about how "Interpreter has published at least one journal article on each of the past 64X consecutive Fridays" (emphasis added), we will be able to point out how, at best, this is a false and grandiose exaggeration, and at worst, it is a brazen and spectacular lie. Bond was right! All hail Bond!

[drumdude]

I agree, very satisfying. There’s a lot of dimensions to it. The first being that no one here noticed when it happened, despite claims that we’re obsessed and hanging on every word.

More importantly, it highlights what a Mickey Mouse operation Interpreter really is. A genuine journal would have plenty of articles in a backlog ready to publish if anything happened to the scheduled article. But instead, someone waited til last minute to do their homework and got caught with their pants down.

It must feel like they’re doing Dan a favor, churning out low quality copy just to keep up the appearance of a thriving journal. And then Dan’s reliable mule - the well worn copy/paste buttons on his keyboard - comes riding to the rescue.

Deeply, deeply satisfying indeed!