Here’s What Critics Say About That Big New Hoax On Gender Studies

A trio of scholars have come clean about a year-long effort to publish fabricated papers related to identity politics, a project trumpeted by many as an indictment of political correctness in gender studies and related fields.

But those fields’ defenders say that the hoax illustrates a far broader problem: that many disciplines are peppered with shoddy scholarship. And even the authors say that their stunt doesn’t make any conclusions about gender studies, per se.

Read more at BuzzFeed News, October 2018.