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Feminism
SoD Cross Post: Gender Studies “Hoax” Shockingly Reveals Scammy Vanity Journals Will Publish Nonsense
This post originally appeared on our sister site, School of Doubt. Read it there or catch the beginning below. When Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay published their recent hoax article “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” in the journal Cogent Social Sciences, they clearly thought they had just majorly dunked on those Foucault-fellating nerds over in the Gender Studies department. “Ha-ha,”…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! The Definitive Guide to Comment Trolls, the Sokal Hoax, Bumbling Dad/Nagging Mom, and more!
Sunday Funny: Spaceship Earth (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Mad Art Lab Guide to Internet Comment Trolls This comic by Ethan perfectly summarizes the different types of internet trolls. Mad Art Cast: Finding Hidden Faces In Paintings The Gang talk about whether it’s OK to use technology to look under paintings. Cat Wine Tasting: It Happened to Us If you’ve never…
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