I just hope this doesn ' t get in the way of someone eventually writing a postmortem study on this whole thing , in the same vein as the Politics of Procurement by Aaron Plamondon . In his book , Plamondon detailed the political interference of the Chretien Liberals in the Sea King replacement process . It ' s suppose to be a cautionary tale , but I ' m concerned someone might be using it as a playbook . After all , it worked out politically . <| sep |> Awesome . thank you <| sep |> The big problem there is that there are whole institutions built around supporting this lack of rigour . There have been several examples of intentionally sham papers published in academic journals where the author just mimicked the meaningless postmodernist language but said absolutely nothing . So there is a whole system in place that allows this to continue and the peerreview process , which is seemingly the check and balance , is part of the problem in some of these areas of social science .