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Academics Expose ‘Grievance Studies’ Field by Submitting Hoax Papers to Journals
National Review ^ | 10/03/2018 | Jack Crowe

Posted on 10/03/2018 8:33:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Three academics spent more than a year submitting absurd “hoax” papers to the preeminent journals focusing on race, gender, sexuality and other politically fraught disciplines that fall into what the perpetrators of the scheme call “grievance studies.”

The self-identified “left-leaning liberal” academics, told the Wall Street Journal they undertook the project out of concern “that certain aspects of knowledge production in the United States have been corrupted” by a hesitance among academics to question research based on privilege and identity for fear of accusations of bigotry.

Since August, 2017 the academics — James Lindsay, a math doctorate, Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University, and Helen Pluckrose, a London-based scholar of English literature and history — submitted 20 papers to various peer-reviewed journals under pseudonyms and seven were accepted.

In one particularly telling example, the academics submitted a paper to the feminist geography journal Gender, Place & Culture detailing the“rape culture” supposedly prevalent within dark parks.

The paper, which submits that dog parks are “petri dishes for canine ‘rape culture,’” issues “a call for awareness into the different ways dogs are treated on the basis of their gender and queering behaviors, and the chronic and perennial rape emergency dog parks pose to female dogs.” The data for the study “was constructed to look outlandish on purpose. So asking us for the data would not have been out of sorts. It would have been appropriate, and we would have been exposed immediately,” Lindsay said.

Afilia, a peer-reviewed feminist journal, accepted one of their papers, “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism,” which is a rewrite of one chapter of “Mein Kampf.”

In defending themselves against charges of unethically deceiving their colleagues, the perpetrators argue they were conducting legitimate research on a particular culture, which they would not otherwise have been able to access.

“We understood ourselves to be going in to study it as it is, to try to participate in it,” Pluckrose said. “The name for this is ethnography. We’re looking at a particular culture.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; grievancestudies; helenpluckrose; hoax; homosexualagenda; jameslindsay; journals; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; peterboghossian; presstitutes; smearmachine; textbooks; university

1 posted on 10/03/2018 8:33:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Shocking that this isn’ t from the Onion or the BabylonBee. Also shocking the any Leftists will challenge their colleagues.


2 posted on 10/03/2018 8:39:50 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind
The self-identified “left-leaning liberal” academics, told the Wall Street Journal they undertook the project out of concern “that certain aspects of knowledge production in the United States have been corrupted” by a hesitance among academics to question research based on privilege and identity for fear of accusations of bigotry.

Dancing around what they really know: academia is populated mostly by hardcore leftist activists and they will automatically and unquestioningly publish what fits their own desired outcomes and nothing else.

You can apply the same finding to climate science.

3 posted on 10/03/2018 8:53:29 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Afilia, a peer-reviewed feminist journal, accepted one of their papers, “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism,” which is a rewrite of one chapter of “Mein Kampf.”

Entirely appropriate. One bunch of Nazis publishing another.

4 posted on 10/03/2018 8:55:27 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
LOL!.

5 posted on 10/03/2018 8:57:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...knowledge production...”

yup, that would be a term of art for leftist profs.


6 posted on 10/03/2018 8:58:55 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: SeekAndFind

i don’t know which would be worse: that the dog park rape spaces paper was real, or that the paper was fake and they published it anyway.

Leftist academia: the papers are fake but the bias is real.


7 posted on 10/03/2018 9:07:08 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is the Sokal Hoax experiment writ large, and one of the reasons why I take nothing new out of academia at face value.


8 posted on 10/03/2018 9:16:45 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: SeekAndFind
...they undertook the project out of concern “that certain aspects of knowledge production in the United States have been corrupted” by a hesitance among academics to question research based on privilege and identity for fear of accusations of bigotry.

In a few years, when the press has been healed of their stupidity they'll highlight this story... for now, they'll ignore it.

Wake up Washington Post - cover this story. Redeem your future self...

9 posted on 10/03/2018 9:22:49 AM PDT by GOPJ ( <img src=”https://i.imgur.com/li3mn5N.jpg";></img>)
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To: SunkenCiv; Liz
Afilia, a peer-reviewed feminist journal, accepted one of their papers, “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism,” which is a rewrite of one chapter of “Mein Kampf.”

LOL - you can't make this stuff up...

10 posted on 10/03/2018 9:25:19 AM PDT by GOPJ ( <img src=”https://i.imgur.com/li3mn5N.jpg";></img>)
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To: SeekAndFind

The MSM went to sleep long ago in this country... you can send them anything you want and they’ll call it the ‘truth’


11 posted on 10/03/2018 9:27:44 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind; GOPJ; SunkenCiv; nuconvert

These three
https://twitter.com/hpluckrose
https://twitter.com/peterboghossian
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames

are my heroes, exposing “grievance studies” as pseudo-science masquerading as knowledge :

Watch this 6 min video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k

Background 17 min https://www.spreaker.com/user/oregonpublicbroadcasting/hoax-aims-to-expose-problems-plaguing-ac


12 posted on 10/09/2018 5:08:13 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: pepsi_junkie
In one particularly telling example, the academics submitted a paper to the feminist geography journal Gender, Place & Culture detailing the“rape culture” supposedly prevalent within dark parks.

The paper, which submits that dog parks are “petri dishes for canine ‘rape culture,’” issues “a call for awareness into the different ways dogs are treated on the basis of their gender and queering behaviors, and the chronic and perennial rape emergency dog parks pose to female dogs.”

Someone should send the 'study' to the MSNBC bimbos - I'll bet they'll fall for it too...

13 posted on 10/09/2018 5:46:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (Last time the American job market was this strong, astronauts were going to the moon.Lydia DePillis)
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To: AdmSmith

Odd that the New York Times and Washington Post are NOT covering this story... could it be bias and hatred of truth?


14 posted on 10/09/2018 8:11:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (Last time the American job market was this strong, astronauts were going to the moon.Lydia DePillis)
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To: GOPJ
The key question is

“Mr. Boghossian doesn’t have tenure and expects the university will fire or otherwise punish him. Ms. Pluckrose predicts she’ll have a hard time getting accepted to a doctoral program. Mr. Lindsay said he expects to become ‘an academic pariah,’ barred from professorships or publications.” as quoted in https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-news-comes-to-academia-1538520950

The newspapers have written about it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/04/paper-that-would-never-have-gotten-past-peer-review-criticizes-academy-film/

15 posted on 10/09/2018 8:48:03 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith
“The three academics call themselves “left-leaning liberals.” Yet they’re dismayed by what they describe as a “grievance studies” takeover of academia...”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-news-comes-to-academia-1538520950

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Three ‘left-leaning liberals’ - amazing. Three people worthy of respect who will most likely be ditched by their Universities... And you're right AdmSmith, I jumped to conclusions about the New York Times and Washington Post - - based on their reputations - - rather than on evidence.

16 posted on 10/09/2018 9:30:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (Last time the American job market was this strong, astronauts were going to the moon.Lydia DePillis)
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To: GOPJ
I jumped to conclusions

Welcome, this happens to me as well from time to time.
17 posted on 10/10/2018 2:25:59 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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