shame-3
Original: shame-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A crowd of people, fists raised, shouting at a lone figure who is wearing a tall cone-shaped dunce cap.
Crowd: SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
The shamed person (wearing the dunce cap), defending themselves: CITED A CLAIM FROM A PAPER THAT WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THAT CLAIM!
Caption (below panel): It was remarkably easy to correct the academic publishing incentive structure.
Votey:
Close-up of the cone-shaped dunce cap. Written down its length is the word: P-HACKER.
A crowd of people, fists raised, shouting at a lone figure who is wearing a tall cone-shaped dunce cap.
Crowd: SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
The shamed person (wearing the dunce cap), defending themselves: CITED A CLAIM FROM A PAPER THAT WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THAT CLAIM!
Caption (below panel): It was remarkably easy to correct the academic publishing incentive structure.
Votey:
Close-up of the cone-shaped dunce cap. Written down its length is the word: P-HACKER.
Alt text
An angry crowd with raised fists chants "SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!" at a lone person wearing a tall pointed dunce cap. The shamed person protests that their crime was that they "CITED A CLAIM FROM A PAPER THAT WAS NOT THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF THAT CLAIM!" The caption reads: "It was remarkably easy to correct the academic publishing incentive structure." The joke is that society shames researchers over a trivial citation slip rather than over serious misconduct. The votey is a close-up of the yellow dunce cap with the word "P-HACKER" written vertically down it, revealing the real offense.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.