Anonymous ID: 1830a8 Oct. 4, 2018, 4:44 a.m. No.3326904   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6926 >>7018 >>7306 >>7461 >>7500

This is funny, kek

 

Academic journals are caught up in massive hoax involving 20 FAKE papers on 'dog rape culture', 'a conceptual penis' and re-printing a version of MEIN KAMPF

In total the three researchers have written 20 hoax papers on 'grievance studies'

The papers - four of which went online - were based on 'nutty or inhumane' ideas

Authors claim the prank shows higher education's fixation with identity politics

Academic journals have been caught up in a massive hoax involving 20 fake papers.

 

Researchers published fake and convoluted papers on 'dog rape culture', 'a conceptual penis' and even re-wrote a chapter of Mein Kampf.

Their aim was to expose how 'absurdities' get published in legitimate peer-reviewed academic papers due to a lack of critical review.

In total the team of three researchers wrote 20 hoax papers on a field of study loosely defined as 'grievance studies'.

These papers – seven of which were accepted and four published online – were based on just 'nutty or inhumane' ideas that they ran with.

The authors claim their prank shows that higher education's fixation with identity politics has created 'absurd and horrific' scholarship, according to an in-depth piece by Wall Street Journal.

The three researchers involved in the deception were Peter Boghossian from Portland State University, mathematician James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose, who is editor-in-chief of current affairs magazine Areol.

Their aim was to expose how easily morally fashionable political ideas are published as academic research.

One paper, published in Gender, Place & Culture, claimed to be based on a year observing sexual misconduct among dogs in a US park.

The paper said that parks were 'petri dishes for canine 'rape culture'' and said people needed to be aware of the way dogs were treated depending on their gender.

It was written by an author called Helen Wilson, who claimed to have a doctorate in feminism studies. The real authors were James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian.

 

'I think that certain aspects of knowledge production in the United States have been corrupted,' Dr Boghossian told WSJ.

The year before they had published a paper called 'The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct' in the journal Cogent Social Sciences.

Their scribblings included the phrases ‘gender-performative, high fluid social construct’, ‘exclusionary to disenfranchised communities’, and ‘isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6239071/Academic-journals-caught-massive-hoax-involving-20-FAKE-papers.html