[C19fan]

If there is a Hall of Trolling Fame these academics, self-admitted Left-of-Center, would be shoo ins.

[C19fan]

Rud Dreher has more including excerpts from the troll papers published: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-bankruptcy-of-grievance-studies/ How about this one: Here is the conclusion to a paper that argues for using dildos to penetrate the rear ends of politically incorrect straight men, to cure them of their troglodytic attitudes:....Particularly from this data, transphobia and transhysteria in straight men exhibit such a close thematic relationship to receptivity to penetrative anal eroticism that intentional anal penetration in “safe” environments may remediate them..

Editors published a paper in favor of forced sodomy, i.e., rape, as a cure for transphobia.

[rjsimmon]

So much for “peer review”.

Begs the question: What if your “peers” are a—holes???

[ChildOfThe60s]

Very interesting.

[GOP Poet]

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[Billthedrill]

I love this one:

To date, their project has been successful: seven papers have passed through peer review and have been published, including a 3000 word excerpt of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in the language of Intersectionality theory and published in the Gender Studies journal Affilia.

Jolly old Adolf was just a little ahead of his time. And I'd bet it didn't take a lot of rewriting.

Postmodernism is intellectual styrofoam - it looks great but you can't build anything out of it. Foucault himself denied that his work could be described that way, preferring "post-structuralist", and it's difficult to read Derrida without entertaining the suspicion that the guy was putting us all on. Baudrillard actually appears to believe all that stuff depending on what it turns out to be day to day.

The real difficulty with making the premise of any school of philosophy "there are no universal truths" is that the statement undoes itself - it doesn't work if it isn't a universal truth itself. The same applies to objective truths. If they don't exist it's useless to posit that. "All truth is contextual" has the same problem. In the latter category is the weird conviction that 2+1=3 is somehow affected by the race, sex, or ethnicity of the speaker. It's simply baffling that anyone could possibly buy into this who hasn't serious mental issues.

[Claud]

Someone on Reddit made a comment that the effects of this stunt go beyond the immediate moment. It’ll have the editors of these journals second-guessing each and every paper from now on—”Are we being duped again”? And since all the papers are BS anyway it’ll be hard to tell!

Truly masterful work! Next-level trolling, as the young’uns say. :)

[lurk]

Peer review has long been a machine to maintain conformity to the peer group message.

[Skooz]

BFL