Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
While this article is interesting, it does start from a pretty strong assumption: that the problem is specific to one branch (or family of branches) of Academia.<p>I remember at least two similar scandals in very much non-social-justice-related branches of Academia. One was in postmodern studies, if I recall correctly, the other one I think in epistemology. In one case, the paper had been written to deliberately mean nothing, in the other one, I seem to remember that the papers had been generated with Markov chains.<p>So, based on the same data, my personal conclusion is that some fields of Academia are vulnerable to bullshit, whether it's sophistry or simply using the right lingo. It is a pretty bad sign, and I suspect that it is correlated with fields in which results are hard to check/reproduce.<p>It may also be correlated with ideology (I remember that this was the accusation towards postmodern studies), which doesn't mean that it is correlated with <i>any specific ideology</i>.<p>In other words: promising research, but the starting hypothesis and its possible limitations need to be expressed more clearly, and much more data needed.