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The Rubin Report

A Massive Hoax Exposes Social Justice in Academia

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Peter Boghossian (philosophy professor at Portland State University) and James Lindsay (PhD in Mathematics) join Dave to discuss their hoax writing 20 fake papers using ridiculous ideas and buzzwords to expose the influence of social justice in academia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Join me today are two of the guys who pulled off the biggest Sokolhook since, well, the original Sokolhooks.

0:12.0

Peter Prgoseon and James Lindsay, welcome to the Ruben Report.

0:15.0

Good to see you.

0:16.0

I am happy to have you guys here.

0:18.0

You're an old pro around here.

0:19.0

It's good to be back.

0:20.0

Yeah, pleasure.

0:21.0

You're first time.

0:22.0

I'm here.

0:23.0

I'm all new.

0:24.0

Well, then with that spirit, I'm going to ask you the first question.

0:28.0

For people who have no idea what the original Sokolhooks is because we're obviously going

0:32.0

to spend a lot of time talking about what you guys have done in the last year, what was the

0:35.7

original Sokolhooks?

0:36.7

When people say, oh, they did a Sokolhooks.

0:39.0

Right, right, right.

0:40.0

What is that?

0:41.0

So Alan Sokol is a physicist or is a physicist at NYU and he in the 90s, 95, 96, he was looking

0:47.4

at this postmodern cultural criticism and he was reading what they're doing and they're

0:52.1

using math words or using physics ideas and terms and they're just making up stuff,

0:57.1

you know, like some theorem about any, some theorem about equality or inequalities and

1:02.7

mathematics and they'll say, oh, well, this obviously means that there's inequalities

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