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Cynical Theories

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

They are possibly the most politically incorrect authors in the world.  And they have universities squarely in their sights.  Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay really rocked the boat in 2017-18 with a marvellous hoax known as the Grievance Studies Affair.

The hoax sought to achieve the publication of bogus academic papers in order to expose poor science in the fields of gender, race, feminism, sexuality, cultural studies and sociology. 

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