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Fake News Comes to Academia - WSJ

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2018-10-03 03:00:18
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Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

How three scholars gulled academic journals to publish hoax papers on ‘grievance studies.’

My hat is off to this masterful bit of righteous shitposting. Getting a translated and reoriented chapter of Mein Kampf accepted as part of a published and peer reviewed feminist paper is likely better than anything I'll ever pull off.

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


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