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Portland State University has initiated disciplinary proceedings against their philosophy professor Peter Boghossian for conspiring with colleagues to submit more than two dozen satirical papers to feminist theory and race-studies journals in an effort to prove those disciplines are academically fraudulent. The hoax papers, some of which were accepted by journals and which were revealed back in October, made Boghossian and his cohorts the international toast of "free thinkers" concerned that college campuses have become paralyzed by political orthodoxy.
After their ruse was revealed, the three authors described their project in an October article in the webzine Areo, which Pluckrose edits. Their goal, they wrote, was to "to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research." They contend that scholarship that tends to social grievances now dominates some fields, where students and others are bullied into adhering to scholars' worldviews, while lax publishing standards allow the publication of clearly ludicrous articles if the topic is politically fashionable.
Sources:
The Chronicle of Higher Education : Proceedings Start Against 'Sokal Squared' Hoax Professor (archive)
Willamette Week : Professor Who Authored Hoax Papers Says Portland State University Has Launched Disciplinary Proceedings Against Him (archive)
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:51PM (3 children)
There's a damn good reason there are at least two buildings here which have large murals reading "KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD".
At least when I contemplated attending UCB, Berkeley had actually swung quite far to the right. At the time, Portland was _highly_ conservative but then all those leftie big-city coders got imported by all the Mobile App Startups here.
The state as a whole has odd politics, in that most of the state is quite rural, with timber, farming and ranching being predominant, whereas Portland's major industry is no longer coding, but selling five-dollar lattes to all the coders.
This Is A Demonstrated Fact:
There are far more strip clubs per capita in Portland that _anywhere_ else in the world. It happens that one of my very closest friends is a bartender at Mary's Club. Say "Hi" to Beth when you fly in, sit right up front then tip one dollar per dance then buy at least one private dance - $25 - as that's they only way those women - I _never_ call them girls - can hope to feed themselves.
A stripper I've gotten to know has a Master's Degree, but as far as I'm able to tell, she really does like getting naked.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:53PM (1 child)
So what's the answer? Let the big west coast cities secede from the states that contain them?
The remainders of Washington, Oregon and probably California would turn blood red in a hot minute.
(For those trying to keep count, that would include the greater Seattle conurbation (Tacoma/Everett/Redmond kind of area), Portland (and the whole extended, annexed zone around it) and pretty much every city with a population over 100,000 on the Californian coast.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:21PM
Don't forget to let New York University (per this link) and University of South Florida, Tampa (per link further up) secede. NYU’s Washington DC campus: Academia aligns with the Department of Defense [wsws.org]
See also New York University: A center of militarism, mass surveillance and censorship: Part 1 [wsws.org], Part 2 [wsws.org], and Part 3 [wsws.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @05:06PM
Tampa has long claimed the same title. So in 2006 they commissioned a study to prove it. [politifact.com] They were disappointed to learn that Tampa is just 3rd. The top 3 were:
1. Las Vegas
2. Cincinnati
3. Tampa