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1/25/03:The Neo Sophists: Intellectual Integrity in the Information Age - A paper from First Monday connects various contemporary social phenomena - including the erasure of lines between the pure science of academia and the proprietary research of private enterpirse; or the tobacco industry's acquisition of scientific conclusions favourable to cigarette sales; or information age boosterism's effect on education and consumerism - as an emerging culture of specious reasoning not unlike the forms of sophistry that Socrates and Aristotle spent their lives repudiating so many centuries ago - Although the techniques attributed to the Sophists have been discredited in the intellectual community, recent events provide compelling evidence that the academic community is currently experiencing a renaissance in specious practices, or a "Neo-Sophism." Some developments may simply be attributed to the hasty infusion of business models into non-business venues such as public education; however, others point to a systematic perversion of intellectual ideals and a reversion to deceptive practices.
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