So apparently some (likely) sock puppet account is the (Deep fake?) face of a new hoax.
Who knows if those hilarious jesters, Lindsay and Boghossian are behind it, but someone seems to have got a paper published in a journal called Higher Education Quarterly.
This is the Twitter account.
The paper is paywalled. I suppose the "tells" are supposed to be that it has a lot of grammar mistakes judging by this thread by Jeffrey Sachs who seems to take it more or less at face value, or the figures don't add up or the conclusion too obviously biases left-wing people so that they can say, "Aha! Looks like the right-wing not the left-wing fund academia!" or something like that.
Looks like some group became suspicious of this paper and tried to contact the university where the authors were supposedly teaching, as well as the journal and the authors themselves, but they received in response some excuses about not being able to talk on the phone and some hilarious remarks about neo-liberalism.
Anyway, I am not really sure what the aim is. They seem to be making a hoax paper to claim right-wing money is influencing universities and then sending a link to their paper to people who are critical of, say, Koch money influencing climate change discussion etc...
I don't really get how it is some sick burn, though no doubt the usual doofuses - Andrew Doyle, Gad Saad etc... - will say it is.
Who knows if those hilarious jesters, Lindsay and Boghossian are behind it, but someone seems to have got a paper published in a journal called Higher Education Quarterly.
This is the Twitter account.
The paper is paywalled. I suppose the "tells" are supposed to be that it has a lot of grammar mistakes judging by this thread by Jeffrey Sachs who seems to take it more or less at face value, or the figures don't add up or the conclusion too obviously biases left-wing people so that they can say, "Aha! Looks like the right-wing not the left-wing fund academia!" or something like that.
Looks like some group became suspicious of this paper and tried to contact the university where the authors were supposedly teaching, as well as the journal and the authors themselves, but they received in response some excuses about not being able to talk on the phone and some hilarious remarks about neo-liberalism.
Anyway, I am not really sure what the aim is. They seem to be making a hoax paper to claim right-wing money is influencing universities and then sending a link to their paper to people who are critical of, say, Koch money influencing climate change discussion etc...
I don't really get how it is some sick burn, though no doubt the usual doofuses - Andrew Doyle, Gad Saad etc... - will say it is.
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