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Marshall Matters: Peter Boghossian

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The Importance of Studies in Gender Studies

I was convinced at the time that the ideological rot, the corruption, was coming from very specific disciplines and fields. Fields that didn't try to falsify hypotheses but tried to forward narratives. So we publish or we wrote with Helen Pluckrose also- Sorry, what type of narrative? What kind of field do you mean? Is that the grievance field?Yeah, fields that forward grievances or that there's just, there's racism baked into the system system. Post-colonial theory. Basically post-modernism and all its children. And then we- so they assumed it was serious. Well yeah, they published it as a serious paper like they thought this was a, it got past

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