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IMHO, the larger threat is the misappropriation of scientific thought/evidence to support a specific policy agenda or social narrative, by the political elite. e.g. Margaret Sanger and eugenics. A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing! I can only imagine the nonsense AOC will come up with next purportedly supported by scientific evidence.  |
Anybody tracking on the Sokal Hoax pulled off by Peter Boghossian ( and James Lindsay?
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One paper about rape culture in dog parks (in which the writer claimed to have inspected the genitals of just under 10,000 dogs while asking their owners about their sexuality) was honoured for excellence as one of 12 exemplary pieces in feminist geography by highly ranked journal Gender, Place and Culture, which published the paper.
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This was my personal favorite... and was SO close to getting published
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a feminist rewriting of a partial chapter from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf – was enthusiastically accepted by feminist social work journal Affilia. The project came to a premature end when Twitter account, Real Peer Review – an account which focuses on exposing poor quality academic scholarship – drew attention to the “dog park” paper.
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