I only shared this in the hopes of getting Hubski to discuss it. Checked out the author's bio page, and found this other recent Atlantic article, What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia: I did lol. It gets even funnier, actually. Edit: I want to explicitly state that sociology is absolutely a discipline worth funding, but I would like to see a pronounced change in the culture and methodologies.I mean, sociology is rapidly attempting to become a parody of itself but this paper is a catastrophe.
The sheer craziness of the papers the authors concocted makes this fact all the more shocking. One of their papers reads like a straightforward riff on the Sokal Hoax. Dismissing “western astronomy” as sexist and imperialist, it makes a case for physics departments to study feminist astrology—or practice interpretative dance—instead...
It wasn't sociologists who fell for it:Edit: I want to explicitly state that sociology is absolutely a discipline worth funding, but I would like to see a pronounced change in the culture and methodologies.
As a number of academics pointed out on Twitter, for example, all of the papers submitted to sociology journals were rejected. For now, it remains unlikely that the American Sociological Review or the American Political Science Review would have fallen for anything resembling “Our Struggle Is My Struggle,” a paper modeled on the infamous book with a similar title.
Well, the most radical corner of sociology, I guess. Not indicative of the whole, you're correct.
turns out if you only pay attention to the silly corners it makes it look silly