#1 The Grievance Studies Affair

0:25 “Sokal hoax” or “Sokal affair”
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_a...

Book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, in which they discuss the hoax and more, available here as a free ebook: https://archive.org/details/fashionab...

Article written by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay where they discuss their “Conceptual Penis” hoax:
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/...

Peter recently quit his job as an assistant professor of philosophy, saying that universities have sacrificed ideas for ideology. The more he spoke out against illiberalism on campus, the more retaliation he faced. This is the first episode of the "Permission to Think" series, a collaboration between Uncomfortable Conversations and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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