
s05e99 | Documenting & Executing the "Grievance Studies Affair" with James Lindsay & Mike Nayna
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In 2017 and 2018 James Lindsay along with Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian staged a broadscale hoax against postmodern Academia by submitting a series of bogus papers for academic review. Mike Nayna documented this so-called “Sokal Squared” affair and has produced a documentary on the matter found on this substack:
https://michaelnayna.substack.com/p/the-reformers-recommended-viewing?sd=pf
Lindsay's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/NewDiscourses
Their twitters:
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames
https://twitter.com/MikeNayna
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