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Jim Geschke's avatar

I go back to this, the academic hoax pulled by James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlqU_JMTzd4&t=833s

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Mike Hind's avatar

Good to see commentary like this from an academic. Many of the social sciences papers I see (via weekly roundups from Psypost) are obviously politically motivated.

An example this week was some analysis of ‘extreme’ speech that arises in online epistemic bubbles. Predictably they looked at far right and incel spaces. I am still to see any studies of the violent language in trans activist spaces.

As well as obvious political bias the other aspect that leaps out is quality. Another paper sought to examine the role of the female orgasm in enduring relationships. The subjects of the study were college students. Also known as kids.

Your piece uncovers some of the dynamics afoot here and I’m grateful for that.

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