Grievance studies affair
Group of bogus academic papers (2018)
Grievance studies affair
The grievance studies affair was the project of a team of three authors—Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose—to highlight what they saw as poor scholarship and erosion of standards in several academic fields. Taking place over 2017 and 2018, their project entailed submitting bogus papers to academic journals on topics from the field of critical social theory such as cultural, queer, race, gender, fat, and sexuality studies to determine whether they would pass through peer review and be accepted for publication. Four of the twenty papers they submitted were published, which the authors interpreted as supporting their position. Although editors at an accepting journal later stated that their acceptance criteria had been affected by the use of falsified data sets in the hoax papers. The affair echoed Alan Sokal's 1996 hoax in Social Text, a cultural studies journal, which inspired Boghossian, Lindsay, and Pluckrose. The trio set out with the intent to expose problems in...
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