[sphinx]

A suggestion for some academic (with ironclad tenure and a university president with some integrity and grit … maybe someone at Purdue): Assign some of these hoax papers in a class. Don't advertise them as hoaxes; just mix them in with real class materials, and encourage students to analyze them. See whether and how soon students would blow the whistle. Turn it into an exploration of standards, intellectual integrity and the current PC assault on the canon.

The challenge would be finding a pretext in a real academic course to raise these topics. The hoaxes were accepted by journals in the garbage studies ghetto, which is a highly self-selected asylum and echo chamber. That said, it wouldn't be too hard for professors in real academic disciplines to swerve into this territory. Any discipline in which postmodernism and critical theory contend for attention has this boundary problem.

[sparklite2]

You can make sense of any of that stuff
if you drop enough acid.