Usually with these internet figures there's some element of difficulty to their work that makes me think "hmm that probably takes effort" like Laura Loomer being everywhere at once or Cernovich bragging about making documentaries. But with James Lindsay I genuinely can't see anything I couldn't knock off on a Sunday afternoon and probably do his job 10x better. He just posts retarded college freshman takes on twitter all day. That's literally all he does.
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 these papers were subsequently published, which the authors cited in support of their contention.
Yes. They pulled off a prank on academic journals. It was a great joke, and (re-)exposed the idiocy in academia for a minute. I believe it just happened to come at a time that 'wokeness' was getting discovered by normies, so it gave Lindsay a bigger platform.
Usually with these internet figures there's some element of difficulty to their work that makes me think "hmm that probably takes effort" like Laura Loomer being everywhere at once or Cernovich bragging about making documentaries. But with James Lindsay I genuinely can't see anything I couldn't knock off on a Sunday afternoon and probably do his job 10x better. He just posts retarded college freshman takes on twitter all day. That's literally all he does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
So they exposed the system of being retarded, by being retarded?
Yes. They pulled off a prank on academic journals. It was a great joke, and (re-)exposed the idiocy in academia for a minute. I believe it just happened to come at a time that 'wokeness' was getting discovered by normies, so it gave Lindsay a bigger platform.
Joke's on them, he was only pretending!