Did you hear about the major feminist social work journal Affilia publishing a loosely
altered chapter of Mein Kamph with added feminist buzzwords?
If so, you heard about the Academic Grievance Studies Hoax.
In 2018, academics James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian submitted a number of
hoax papers to "identity studies" and "critical theory" journals to test their
hypothesis that many postmodernist influenced academic fields have deplorably low standards
of scholarship, and will accept almost any argument so long as it fit within the anti-
male, anti-white, or anti-cisgender biases of their field.
The trio had 7 papers accepted.
But for this, The Portland State Institutional Review Board investigated Boghossian for failing
to get their supposedly required approval for a human subjects study, and found him
guilty, which will be a forever lasting black mark on his career.
Why?
Because of the damage the Academic Grievance Studies Hoax could have on its human subjects
-- the dishonest, unscientific, bigoted journal editors.
The papers the trio submitted were intentionally preposterous.
The data was often unbelievable, and the argumentation logically broken.
For example, Gender, Place, and Culture, the leading journal in the field of feminist geography,
published a paper claiming that "dog parks are … a place of rampant canine rape culture
and system oppression against the 'oppressed dog'" and men should be trained not to
rape the same way as dogs.
The journal gave it a special recognition for excellence.
But upon publication of the hoax, 12 anonymous faculty members at Portland State University
attacked Boghossian for "chronic and pathological, unscholarly behavior" and bringing "negative
publicity" to "honest scholars".
Afterwards, the Institutional Review Board investigation was initiated.
IRBs were originally mandated to protect human subjects of studies from abuse, as happened
in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Stanford Prison Experiment.
However, according to IRB expert Laura Stark, "universities and IRBs definitely make decisions
about what issues to pursue and how aggressively to pursue them depending on the political
climate on campus".
It's fundamentally wrong that bigoted identity studies academics receive protection from
universities, at the cost of genuine scholars like Boghossian who simply seek to expose
the truth.
Famed academics from across the political aisle came together to write letters to PSU
defending Boghossian, including Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, Richard Dawkins, and Jordan
Peterson, but that did not protect Boghossian from his guilty verdict.
Additionally, Boghossian has been followed into a bathroom by someone who disliked the
hoax and told "I don't want to talk to you Peter, I want to hurt you."
Boghossian has said "It is a concern for my safety in Portland when I leave the house
now.
And I have now been threatened on more than one occasion by people."
It's time academia return to sanity; that starts with protecting credible research,
and marginalizing those who publish unsound and hateful polemics.
To learn more on how that might happen, watch our video on The Death of the University.
I'm Joseph Klein.
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