and who claimed to have examined 10,000 canine genitals is now under investigation for academic fraud related to this ridiculous paper.
After they are done with this professor, they plan to go back in time and arrest Jonathan Swift for writing A Modest Proposal.
If there anyone at a college or university with a brain?
Link: https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1082430087746674689
so-called prestigious social scientists didn't have any standards. The "research" done by that community had no content. They're just a group of wordsmiths, social activists and its journal editors were indeed unable to distinguish absurd satirical nonsense from something they were ready to call "true scholarship".
Now they seek to revenge on any joke that tease them.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
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And by "position" I mostly mean one not in a troll farm, obviously.
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...or they are really that stupid that they didn’t recognize the satire in which case, they don’t deserve their reputation.
Actually, there is 0possibility that they didn’t know he was being satirical, but the wanted to take him down for expressing any dissenting opinion to the legitimacy of their PC departments.
I agree with Pinker here, but the problem with this guy was not an "unpopular view" but fraud.
But, yes, if you wanted to, you could post links to university websites on a daily basis with stories like that. And, yes, the humanities in particular are immersed in "intersectionality" and all the other accompanying mumbo-jumbo nonsense and yes the effects of it spill out into larger society.
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But the issue was not "unpopular views," it was fraud.
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But there is a great deal of time involved in the peer-review and editing process. Cases like this waste a lot of time (admittedly for humorless people who are too stupid to recognize satire).