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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is James Lindsay and you are listening to the new discourses podcast. |
0:24.6 | And once again, I'm going to present to you a ridiculous academic paper. |
0:29.8 | Not necessarily because I think it's going to go anywhere, practically, maybe it will, |
0:34.9 | but partly because I wish we would have written this as one of our so-called grievance |
0:39.1 | studies affair hoax papers back in 2017 and 2018 if you don't know that story. |
0:45.8 | Some colleagues with me, Peter Bergotian, Helen Pluckrose, with the help of the filmmaker |
0:50.8 | Mike Naina, wrote a whole bunch of fake academic articles that were just over the top. |
0:55.8 | And when I saw this one, I thought, wow. |
0:59.7 | This would fit right in. |
1:01.0 | So we submitted those to peer-reviewed academic journals in gender studies and race studies |
1:06.3 | and so on. |
1:07.3 | And a bunch of them, seven of them got accepted for publication. |
1:10.7 | The whole story is a thing. |
1:12.0 | It's not the point of this podcast. |
1:14.4 | But this is a real paper that would have satisfied our interest. |
1:18.9 | In fact, as soon as I saw it, I sent it to Peter and Mike and said, can you believe we didn't |
1:24.0 | think of this? |
1:25.0 | It's so perfect. |
1:27.2 | And I want to read it just because what we understand now is that we kind of have to |
1:36.0 | look at where they, the way that the woke left or woke Marxists think because there's |
1:44.5 | no safeguard from these slippery slopes. |
1:47.2 | It's only a matter of the right people or wrong people as it were thinking that this idea |
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