Fake News Comes to Academia

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

The existence of a monthly journal focused on “feminist geography” is a sign of something gone awry in academia. The journal in question—Gender, Place & Culture—published a paper online in May whose author claimed to have spent a year observing canine sexual misconduct in Portland, Ore., parks.



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


This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism and cultural constructivism.

Part I: Introduction

Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established, if not fully dominant, within these fields, and their scholars increasingly bully students, administrators, and other departments into adhering to their worldview. This worldview is not scientific, and it is not rigorous. For many, this problem has been growing increasingly obvious, but strong evidence has been lacking. For this reason, the three of us just spent a year working inside the scholarship we see as an intrinsic part of this problem.






We spent that time writing academic papers and publishing them in respected peer-reviewed journals associated with fields of scholarship loosely known as “cultural studies” or “identity studies” (for example, gender studies) or “critical theory” because it is rooted in that postmodern brand of “theory” which arose in the late sixties. As a result of this work, we have come to call these fields “grievance studies” in shorthand because of their common goal of problematizing aspects of culture in minute detail in order to attempt diagnoses of power imbalances and oppression rooted in identity.

We undertook this project to study, understand, and expose the reality of grievance studies, which is corrupting academic research. Because open, good-faith conversation around topics of identity such as gender, race, and sexuality (and the scholarship that works with them) is nearly impossible, our aim has been to reboot these conversations. We hope this will give people—especially those who believe in liberalism, progress, modernity, open inquiry, and social justice—a clear reason to look at the identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left and say, “No, I will not go along with that. You do not speak for me.”

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/


More to read on the link

What journals were these pieces published in? It sounds like fake news talking to Breitbart alt.truth.

Where the hell is Kellyanne Conway when ya need her.

You did not read or watch the videos

Quelle surprise

And on que, some lefty "Liberal Art and Science professors , try to deligitimize the people who have exposed this scandle

Yep, you heard me correct. Instead of taking this seriously, the left bury their heads, and go onto the attack, trying to as per usual making unfounded accusations against them

You cannot make it up, how again we see some on the left clearly at odds with what teaching actually is all about. It again proves the agenda that some of this militants have

In the end its only going to expose them further to what they are.



They recently did a podcast with Joe Rogan if anyone is interested