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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @12:42AM
The authoritarian personality type is designed to be subservient to people with narcissistic personality disorder. Its like hand-in-glove. That's not to say that NPD and authoritarianism are mutually exclusive in specific individuals, plenty of NPDs are also authoritarians. Its just that being an authoritarian makes a person especially susceptible to the persuasion techniques of the NPD. See flying monkeys [wikipedia.org] for a common one-on-one example where NPD's typically control subservient NPDs. If anything, successful NPDs are adept at activating authoritarian tendencies in people who wouldn't be particularly authoritarian under normal conditions. They get them jazzed up which makes them more vulnerable to the NPD's other techniques. For example - hyping status insecurity (racial, gender, etc). And that insecurity is precisely what drives boghossian and his crowd.