Richard Dawkins Defends Academic Peter Boghossian Who Hoaxed Journals With 'Feminist Mein Kampf'

Seven dubious studies were accepted out of 20 papers submitted to academic journals, including one that claimed bodybuilding is “fat-exclusionary”.

Another was titled “Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity feminism as an intersectional reply to neoliberal and choice feminism” and was a rewrite of chapter 12 of Hitler’s infamous manifesto.

One paper about rape culture in dog parks, which compares gender interactions between dogs with those in human society, gained special recognition for excellence from the Gender, Place & Culture journal.

The academics released a video on YouTube revealing the stunt but Boghossian’s employers were not amused, saying he had studied “human research subjects” — meaning the staff and peer-reviewers of the journals— without abiding by proper ethical rules.