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Some people submitted nonsense papers (for example: rape culture at dog parks, and an excerpt from Mein Kampf), and they were accepted for publication.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/duped-academic-journal-publish...

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They have a book coming out soon titled “Cynical Race Theory” which is a critique of the 40 years of academic thought that has gone from fringe to mainstream (And applied like the Inquisition mashed up with Maoist techniques like Struggle Sessions) and we are seeing played out unwittingly by the media, tech companies, and the tokenizing social media chatter class.

Looked this up and saw the promos. Anything endorsed by both Steven Pinker and Alan Sokal is bound to be bad faith, intellectually dishonest hackery.

Perhaps. The authors, however, are respectable in the time I’ve read their blogs, tweets, etc. Guided by liberal principals and have expressed a generally good understanding of philosophy going back to the Greeks.

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