... a husband believes his wife is faithful even though everyone knows she’s sleeping with his best friend. Watch what happens to Boghossian. I hope you can discern it, though. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. PSU Accuses Peter Boghossian of Ethical Misconduct, My Chat with Pete Boghossian – On the Grievance Studies Project (THE SAAD TRUTH_788). He and his partners focused on so-called “grievance studies” — areas of academia which advocate on behalf of the supposedly powerless against the supposedly powerful. You didn’t think left-wing academia was going to let them get away with this, did you? Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing stories from around the world, delivered to your inbox every weekday. The trio also managed to publish a “feminist-oriented revision” of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf, without tipping anyone off to the fact that the submission was part of an elaborate hoax. Boghossian is not a tenured professor. Boghossian’s official biography says that he has a “teaching pedigree” that spans 25 years, and that he’s taught ” in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, seminaries, colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies, and small businesses.” Boghossian says that his “fundamental objective” is to “teach people how to think through what often seem to be intractable problems. Last year, Peter Boghossian took part in a hoax in which he and two other scholars submitted a series of over-the-top spoof articles to academic journals.
Here’s a January 9 letter of protest on his behalf that Boghossian published on Twitter. ”. Now, Portland State University is threatening to sanction Boghossian for failing to get Institutional Review Board approval for his research. The linguist Steven Pinker has also defended Boghossian, as has the Canadian philosophy professor Jordan Peterson.
He is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University in Oregon.
In other words, he almost certainly broke clearly established rules in academia, rules that were not put in place for political reasons. Jesse Singal at New York magazine writes about what’s going down. Dawkins, a professor at Oxford University, wrote to Portland State saying, in part, “Do your humourless colleagues who brought this action want Portland State to become the laughing stock of the academic world? And, they said, they wanted to make it easier for people to speak freely without the pressure to fit into the worldview being pushed by certain academic studies: ” We hope this will give people—especially those who believe in liberalism, progress, modernity, open inquiry, and social justice—a clear reason to look at the identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left and say, “No, I will not go along with that.