Major Hoax Proves Regressive Left Rampant In College
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🗓️ 3 October 2018
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Summary
A Major Hoax Proves Regressive Ideology Rampant In College. Three academics spent a year writing fake papers and submitting them to major academic journals. In one instance they used an algorithm to generate "rambling nonsense" and the paper was accepted. Some of their papers are much more alarming, advocating for white people to be chained up in the classroom. Their essay talks about "grievance studies" or what most people would call "social justice warriors." They look at how social justice and intersectional feminist dogma is a preferred moral framework in academia. But they stress that the need for good social justice is a driving reason as to why they perpetrated the hoax. Either way this is more evidence of the dark times ahead as science and academia are increasingly under attack from ideological forces.
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday we learned of a major hoax taken out against academia. |
| 0:04.5 | Three scholars, James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose and Peter Bagotian, for over a year had written |
| 0:09.2 | 20 fake papers that were submitted to high-ranking peer-reviewed journals, |
| 0:13.7 | seven of them were published. One of these papers used a computer algorithm to generate what they |
| 0:18.7 | called rambling nonsense. It was accepted. The more terrifying scenario was when they rewrote a |
| 0:24.8 | section of mine-comp, but swapped in feminist buzzwords and this paper was accepted. According |
| 0:30.8 | to the scholars, they believe that ideology is pervasive within academia. They call this |
| 0:36.1 | grievement studies. They felt that as long as they wrote papers that fit a certain moral framework, |
| 0:41.2 | they would be accepted without question. Now most of their papers were not accepted, but many of |
| 0:46.0 | them were and many of them were actually terrifying. One paper advocated for taking white students, |
| 0:52.0 | chaining them up in a classroom and not allowing them to speak. And this lends itself to the idea |
| 0:57.9 | that science and academia are in trouble and we're potentially heading for a new dark age. |
| 1:02.0 | Because we are hearing about scientific studies being taken down for being offensive. We hear about |
| 1:07.1 | people having their data removed from websites because it's offensive. It seems now that within |
| 1:12.0 | academia, ideology is more important than the pursuit of knowledge. So today, let's take a look at |
| 1:18.0 | exactly what happened with these scholars and believe it or not, they're not the only ones who |
| 1:22.0 | did this. There is actually another story that came out yesterday about another scholar |
| 1:27.5 | duping academic journals, but first let's start with the three of these scholars. In Aero magazine, |
| 1:32.8 | these three individuals wrote what they called academic grievement studies and the corruption of |
| 1:37.5 | scholarship. The essay starts by saying something has gone wrong in the university, especially in |
| 1:42.2 | certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon |
| 1:47.1 | attending to social grievances has become firmly established, if not fully dominant within these |
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