Warning: of the Tom Woods Letter is not meant for younger eyes.
I’m not trying to be vulgar — you know me better than that — but I am discussing what goes on in leftist academia, and it’s not for a child’s eyes (or anyone’s, really).
Three academics — Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose — have been engaged in the most exquisitely subversive project over the past year: submitting altogether insane articles for publication at feminist, “gender studies,” and related journals.
They had to halt the project prematurely when a watchdog Twitter account that keeps an eye on crazy academic articles brought attention to one of their successful publications, noting that names and institutions mentioned in it did not exist. That led to an inquiry by the journal’s editor, and the secret project began to unravel.
But they had plenty of success up to then.
They had seven articles published, passing “peer review” at academic journals. Another seven were at the “revise and resubmit” stage (which generally results in acceptance) when they had to call a halt to the project. Typically if an academic can publish seven academic papers in as many years, he is rewarded with tenure; our trio managed this feat in a mere ten months.
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One paper, about rape culture in dog parks, “gained special recognition for excellence from its journal, Gender, Place, and Culture, a highly ranked journal that leads the field of feminist geography. The journal honored it as one of twelve leading pieces in feminist geography as a part of the journal’s 25th anniversary…