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What the “grievance studies” hoax actually reveals: The headline-grabbing prank has more to do with gender than with academia
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- Title
- The "Grievance Studies" Hoax Does Not Reveal the Academic Scandal That It Claims
- Authors
- Daniel Engber
- Published
- Oct 5 2018
- Word count
- 2577 words
Previous topics:
https://tildes.net/~science/746/academic_grievance_studies_and_the_corruption_of_scholarship
https://tildes.net/~misc/73n/the_grievance_studies_scandal_five_academics_respond
This was the key takeaway for me - they're criticizing academia for doing politically-motivated not-especially-rigorous science, while engaging in that very same thing themselves: