Tonight academic James Lindsay joins us to discuss the famous Grievance Studies project.

I'm roaming millennial and you're watching uncensored. James Lindsay is one of the

recent research methodology in certain academic fields. If you aren't familiar with it yet here is part of a video the team released about their initiative.

Since approximately June of 2017,

I along with two other concerned academics, Since approximately submitting them to highly respected journals in fields that study gender, race, sexuality, and similar

topics.

We did this to expose a political corruption that's taken hold of the university.

By this point, several of these papers have been accepted in highly respected journals

and one that claims that dog-humping incidents can be taken as evidence of rape culture

has been officially honored as excellent scholarship.

I'm not going to lie to you.

We had a lot of fun with this project.

The reviewers are worried that we didn't respect the dog's privacy.

The best thing concerned. privacy. If you have a few minutes, I'll try to explain.

To be clear up front, we think studying topics like gender, race, and sexuality is worthwhile,

and getting it right is extremely important.

The problem is how these topics are being studied right now.

A culture has developed in which only certain conclusions are allowed,

like those that make whiteness and masculinity problematic.

The fields we're concerned about put social grievances ahead of objective truth.

So as a simple summary, we call the problem grievance studies.

To test the depth of this problem, my collaborators and I dedicated ourselves to a one to two year secret project targeting top grievance studies journals with an agreement to publicly release our findings no matter what the outcome.

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