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Hello.

Hello, Joe.

Thanks for doing this man, I really appreciate it.

Oh, this is exciting.

I don't think I've ever had a conversation as long as we're about to have.

I've been listening to the happiness hypothesis over the last few days and I really

really enjoy it. I'm really enjoying it. It's really fascinating stuff, man. But one thing I wanted to talk about

because we're talking about it right before we got started was what's happening with Peter

Bagozian at Portland State University. For folks who don't know the story, he and I forget his two colleagues

Helen Plutros and yeah James Lindsay yeah they released these fake papers on like

homo eroticism and rape culture in dog parks and just really preposterous

papers that are almost like an article from the onion and some of them not only did they get

peer reviewed and accepted into these journals but they got loud it as being these amazing

pieces of one did one got a word yeah and and now he's getting in trouble. That's right. Yeah and we were just talking about it and I just would love to know your thoughts as a professor like what. Oh sure. Yeah, so you know for those who don't know I guess most of your listeners probably do but you know it was called the grievance studies hoax.

Yeah. Because and in the end this is one of the big issues going on in the Academy which I hope we'll talk about is is what does it take to have good scholarship and the argument is that in some

fields as long as you hate the right things and use the right words you'll get

published and that's not

scholarship that's activism and so these three people who did this hoax they were trying to

show that that's the case and so they wrote these papers one of them was actually a section of Mein Kampf.

Yes.

And they just substituted in something about feminism for Nazism, something like that.

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