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Ep: 30 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 1: The Introduction

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The Sokel Squared Hoax

Postmodernism today has evolved into in some places is a sole focus upon power relationships between people. According to this mode of thinking, those groups of people who have historically held power have done so for illegitimate reasons and thus any knowledge associated with them must be regarded as dubious because it was produced by the oppressor class. Sokel squared event was conducted by Peter Bekozian, Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay,. And they submitted absolutely ridiculous papers to a number of journals. Despite the fact they were ridiculous and hilarious, they were taken totally seriously and published as serious pieces. Now I say that these were absolutely ridiculous because for a typical person, not indoctrinated with the grievance study,

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