What Can I Do That They Can't Ignore?

Allan decides to plan an academic caper, you know, like a con a swindle or a hoax. Instead of writing an article criticising these people, why don't i write an article praising these people? Here's his plan. He wants to write a bad article, one that he thinks is definitely wrong. It's a hoax paper. And then he's going to see if that hoax can get published in one of those trendy journals fighting the science wars. If the journal publishes the ox then it'll be obvious to everyone, they're just a fraud. Allan also tells me that another reason why he picked social texts is because they quote, flirt with post modernism.

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