‘Dog parks are petri dishes for canine rape culture’: And more of the ridiculous studies a team of hoaxsters got published in academic journals

Three academics spent a year submitting absurd studies to peer-reviewed journals — and some were accepted, including one that astutely concluded Hooters’ success is due to men’s interest in scantily clad women.

Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian had a hunch: If they wrote a bunch of ridiculous papers laced with just enough lefty buzzwords, they could probably get them published by major cultural studies papers.

They were absolutely right: Of 20 papers authored by the trio under fake names, seven were accepted and another five were still under review. The project has been referred to as Sokal 2, a reference to the famed 1996 case in which American physicist Alan Sokal successfully published a paper of impenetrable gibberish in a peer-reviewed cultural studies journal.

Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism Accepted by Affilia

Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf, in which he essentially lays out a rough blueprint for the Second World War, is not known for its readability: It’s a rambling victim-complex screed interspersed with words like “Jewish rabble” and “Marxist deceivers.” This study took chapter 12 of Mein Kampf, in which Hitler describes the origins of the Nazi party, and reworked it so that it was instead describing the rise of “solidarity feminism.” Hitler, for instance, wrote that “the nationalization of the broad masses can never be achieved by half-measures … but only by a ruthless and fanatically one-sided orientation toward the goal to be achieved.” In this study, that becomes “feminism cannot limit itself to half-measures in solidarity … only a single-minded alignment with solidarity for effecting the goal of justice will suffice.” The paper is even called Our Struggle, a direct reference to Mein Kampf being translated as “My Struggle.” The editors of Affilia did not notice, with one praising its “potential to generate important dialogue for social workers and feminist scholars.”

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