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Peter Boghossian

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Denyse O'Leary
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April 8, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Peter Boghossian on the Woke and cultural suicide

Denyse O'Leary
April 8, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
ON Boghossian: A lifelong liberal and critic of former President Donald Trump, Boghossian believes describing people as left or right is losing utility. It’s those who demand you think a certain way who are on one side, while those who do not are on the other. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 6, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Sokal hoaxer Peter Boghossian makes some Utah State students feel that they are not “safe”

Denyse O'Leary
February 6, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
Apparently, he is guilty of “conceptual fascism” as well. My, my. Kiddos, the only people who should not “feel safe” around a Sokal hoaxer are people who are full of it. If you knew your stuff and were doing anything useful, you’d have nothing to fear. You’d even find it fun. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 14, 2019
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Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Peter Boghossian: Culture War II unites Christians and atheists

Denyse O'Leary
November 14, 2019
Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Religion
Boghossian: In Culture War 2.0, correspondence theories of truth aren’t just dead: truth itself is inaccessible to people who do not possess the right identity characteristics. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 31, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
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Sokal hoaxer punished: Science has left the building

Denyse O'Leary
August 31, 2019
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
The historic moment here is the university’s awesome lack of a sense of shame. At one time, people would ask hard questions of themselves if they looked as silly as this, rather than rushing to blame someone else. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 27, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
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Darwinian Jerry Coyne makes a good point about the social science hoaxes

Denyse O'Leary
July 27, 2019
Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
The distinction is that low-quality papers might happen to fall through the cracks now and then and a cherry picker could gin up an indictment of a whole field unjustly. BUT when a number of hoax papers get accepted by various journals, that points to deeper systemic rot. Especially when the social science profs are enraged rather than ashamed Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 26, 2019
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Psychology
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Portland U prof who hoaxed social science journals to prove a point is punished

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2019
Culture, Intelligent Design, Psychology
The rap is “research misconduct,” of all things. Oh and get this: “An academic journal is continuing to sell a viral article on “rape culture” and “queer performativity” in Portland dog parks despite expressing concerns about the veracity of the research. Veracity? It was a genuine hoax, that’s what kind of veracity it had. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 14, 2019
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
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Social science hoax papers: Putting a respectable face on persecuting the hoaxers

Denyse O'Leary
January 14, 2019
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
Sexton: Similarly, the experts Singal contacted said the use of fake data still counts as data fabrication even if the dataset was obviously meant to be part of a satirical hoax. So there may be two grounds on which this IRB could decide to punish Boghossian. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 8, 2019
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
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Social science hoaxer’s job at risk for revealing “bias”

Denyse O'Leary
January 8, 2019
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology
Boghossian’s breach of ethics was that he was supposed to get the consent of the journal editors before hoaxing them because they are human subjects. No, really. That is the explanation. Read More ›