DELINGPOLE: ‘Penises Cause Climate Change’; Progressives Fooled by Peer-Reviewed Hoax Study

Breitbart ^ | 05/20/2017 | James Delingpole

[ForYourChildren]

Gender studies is a fake academic industry populated by charlatans, deranged activists and gullible idiots. Now, a pair of enterprising hoaxers has proved it scientifically by persuading an academic journal to peer-review and publish their paper claiming that the penis is not really a male genital organ but a social construct.

The paper, published by Cogent Social Sciences – “a multidisciplinary open access journal offering high quality peer review across the social sciences” – also claims that penises are responsible for causing climate change.

The two hoaxers are Peter Boghossian, a full-time faculty member in the Philosophy department at Portland State University, and James Lindsay, who has a doctorate in math and a background in physics.

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[ForYourChildren]

So so sad!

Where have we gone?

[ForYourChildren]

“So, for this new spoof, Boghossian and Lindsay were careful to throw in lots of signifier phrases to indicate fashionable anti-male bias:..”

“They also took care to make it completely incomprehensible...”

See article for specifics.

[ForYourChildren]

“None of it should have survived more than a moment’s scrutiny by serious academics. But it was peer-reviewed by two experts in the field who, after suggesting only a few changes, passed it for publication:..”

[SamAdams76]

Bruce Jenner did his part.

[ForYourChildren]

Here is the actual publication published in Cogent Social Sciences:

https://www.cogentoa.com/article/10.1080/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf

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And.. just in case.. it has been archived here:

http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/conceptual-penis/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf

Another really good analysis on this spoof is here:
http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/conceptual-penis-social-contruct-sokal-style-hoax-on-gender-studies/

[Cowboy Bob]

also claims that penises are responsible for causing climate change.

Mine causes women to get hot.

[fhayek]

I am glad that my penis is not subject to peer review. I mean, I may have trouble backing it up with hard facts... Just saying.

[lee martell]

Okay, I think we just began the daily Silly Hour.
Or maybe it’s still called Happy Hour.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“Mine causes women to get hot.”
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LOL!

Ride ‘em Cowboy!

[lgjhn23]

The stupidity and insanity caused by liberalism exposed for our entertainment....LOL

[Dilbert San Diego]

I am glad that my penis is not subject to peer review. I mean, I may have trouble backing it up with hard facts... Just saying.

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There’s a special woman who has reviewed me. Not just anyone can do a review of me; I have my standards..........................

[rockinqsranch]

Professor Irwin Corey shtick. The man made a living performing such nonsense as comedy routine.

[nevergore]

I know mine causes climate change.....That’s a fact!

[ForYourChildren]

Quote from the actual paper:

“Toxic hypermasculinity derives its significance directly from the conceptual penis and applies itself to supporting neocapitalist materialism, which is a fundamental driver of climate change, especially in the rampant use of carbon-emitting fossil fuel technologies and careless domination of virgin natural environments. We need not delve deeply into criticisms of dialectic objectivism, or their relationships with masculine tropes like the conceptual penis to make effective criticism of (exclusionary) dialectic objectivism. All perspectives matter.”

Here is what the authors say about the above paragraph:

If you’re having trouble understanding what any of that means, there are two important points to consider. First, we don’t understand it either. Nobody does. This problem should have rendered it unpublishable in all peer-reviewed, academic journals. Second, these examples are remarkably lucid compared to much of the rest of the paper.

[SandRat]

‘Penises Cause Climate Change’

Are all male mammals at fault or only human males?

[Billthedrill]

I love these. There's some first-class jargon going down there, authentic frontier gibberish expressing the courage little seen in this day and age. I will confess to having employed the Postmodernism Generator myself, naturally only for the purposes of amusing my, er, colleagues.

“The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” should not have been published on its merits because it was actively written to avoid having any merits whatsoever. The paper is academically worthless nonsense.

I dunno. People get tenure and a lifetime suck off the academic teat based on this stuff. Cui bono?

[ForYourChildren]

“Thus, the isomorphism between the conceptual penis and what’s referred to throughout discursive feminist literature as “toxic hypermasculinity,” is one defined upon a vector of male cultural machismo braggadocio, with the conceptual penis playing the roles of subject, object, and verb of action. The result of this trichotomy of roles is to place hypermasculine men both within and outside of competing discourses whose dynamics, as seen via post-structuralist discourse analysis, enact a systematic interplay of power in which hypermasculine men use the conceptual penis to move themselves from powerless subject positions to powerful ones (confer: Foucault, 1972).”

Authors say:
No one knows what any of this means because it is complete nonsense. Anyone claiming to is pretending. Full stop.

It gets worse. Not only is the text ridiculous, so are the references.

[HarleyLady27]

“Penises of the World UNITE’!!! ROFLMAO...

[nevergore]

This is the thread you need to be on....