[confederatecarpetbag]

This is funnier than any Saturday Night Live skit. Three libs intentionally submitting fraudulent "academic" papers. What a hoot.

[lightman]

Ping.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

“prank academia”
Seriously?…low hanging fruit. Folks have been doing this for ages. Some thinking they’re serious.

[Disambiguator]

Another professor did something similar back in the 90s.

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

[HiTech RedNeck]

Green meat

[BigEdLB]

Puppies proclaim: “Papa- you raped our mom. The college professor says so!”

[Hugin]

Somebody submitted a fake article to HuffPo a while back suggesting that white people should lose the vote for 50 years to help end “white privilege”. HuffPo published it without criticism and a lot of their readers agreed.

[aspasia]

This problem is most easily summarized as an overarching (almost or fully sacralized) belief that many common features of experience and society are socially constructed. These constructions are seen as being nearly entirely dependent upon power dynamics between groups of people, often dictated by sex, race, or sexual or gender identification. All kinds of things accepted as having a basis in reality due to evidence are instead believed to have been created by the intentional and unintentional machinations of powerful groups in order to maintain power over marginalized ones. This worldview produces a moral imperative to dismantle these constructions.

OK, so they identified the problem. And the solution is . . .?

bkmrkd

[aspasia]

Here is their suggestion plan to fix:

Our recommendation begins by calling upon all major universities to begin a thorough review of these areas of study

Two other wrong answers are to attack the peer-review system or academia overall. . . . The same is true for the university, which is a center of knowledge production and a gem of modern culture. Fighting the university or the peer-review system would be like killing the patient to end the disease. We expect to see these attacks, especially from political conservatives, and they are wrongheaded.