Scholars behaving badly

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In this day and age, academics need to stand together

Over the past 12 months, three scholars — James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian — wrote 20 fake papers and submitted them to journals in fields including gender studies, queer studies, and fat studies. The three, who consider themselves left-leaning liberals, have done a terrible disservice to academia.