A little mini-thread about the grievance studies hoax, responding to concerns from @ConceptualJames that the emphasis of my initial set of responses may have been in someway misplacedhttps://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1056611677251272706 …
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... not by itself entail that the argument raised in support of the seemingly absurd punchline is not itself worthy of consideration (especially if the argument is supported by fabricated data but the reader doesn't know that). I don't know much about feminist geography myself.
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If I told you that we secretly did 10 more papers than we revealed and at least two of them are in the last two years' worth at Gender, Place, and Culture, I bet you'd have surprisingly little trouble finding them even though they're not really there.
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Also, metaphysics: just say no. I've been railing on metaphysics for going on ten years now. It's a different kind of waste of time, but it doesn't institute institutional boards that fire you for having the wrong metaphysics (anymore -- we stopped that for a reason).
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Saying "just say no" to an entire discipline like metaphysics that has produced, yes, lots of papers most likely of little practical value (that is not of course the only kind of value) but also much profound thought, is an enormous oversimplification in my view.
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I defer to Unger.
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It seems like the best defense people can muster here can be boiled down to: “it sucks that people have uncovered the scam that a large chunk of academia is a factory that converts federal funding into gibberish bc my plan was to ride that gravy train as long as possible”
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