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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @08:46PM (1 child)
You are one of those reactionary authoritarians who is deep into the collective narcissism. And guess what? Your butthurt screed in response basically confirms it. The thing about narcissists, you are all so pathetically thin skinned. You shit on the people you resent and act like y'all are just clinically describing the facts without any political correctness. But when even a hint of that gets turned around on you, you go ballistic.
We see through your bullshit and we ain't having it any more.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 14 2019, @04:48AM
I notice you never ever say why you hold that opinion.
Why would a post presenting a sensible correction ever be considered evidence for "thin skinned"? It's interesting how accepting unquestioningly an asinine argument is considered more of a virtue here. Maybe being thin skinned, even when it actually happens, is by far the lesser of evils?
And by "shit", you mean what? "acting like y'all are just clinically describing the facts" isn't much of a thing.
I think there's a pop psychology word that completely describes what's going on here - "projection". For example, an AC (perhaps you?) blathered [soylentnews.org] on about "DARVO" (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) as if it were peculiar to narcissism. You are definitely going through the "ARVO" part with an attack that is without substance and then accusing me of "shitting" on you as if you were the victim (though how that supposedly works through the internet is left unmentioned). So odd that a supposed behavior of narcissism is discussed and then prominently described in your above post. But I suppose you'll just deny that my accusation is true, and then repeat the DARVO behavior.