'The Penis as a Social Construct'

[Nearly Sane]

Brilliant scary letter of resignation from Peter Boghossian outlining the problems of being a liberal thinker in US academia, and increasingly here

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for

[Aruntraveller]

A depressing read.

It does make you question just how we got to this point. I don't know the answer to that and whenever I try to work it out I come up against a brick wall that says surely Educators can see what is happening and remedy it.

The fact that many are complicit, and other are cowed into submission, is very worrying.

[SteveH]

TBF, we only have Prof. Boghossian's side of the story, and it seems his spoof-paper trick didn't come to anything: it was rejected by an academic journal, and only accepted by another with a poor reputation. I'd like to hear the university's reply.

[Nearly Sane]

TBF, we only have Prof. Boghossian's side of the story, and it seems his spoof-paper trick didn't come to anything: it was rejected by an academic journal, and only accepted by another with a poor reputation. I'd like to hear the university's reply.

In isolation your points are valid, but the issue with peer reviewed nonsense is not new 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair


Nor are the threats against academics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51248684