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Sixty seconds on . . . Peter Boghossian
BMJ 2019; 364 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l193 (Published 14 January 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;364:l193
- Jacqui Wise
- London, UK
Never heard of him. Is he Man City’s latest signing?
No, he’s assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University in Oregon in the US, but he faces losing his job after helping to create a number of spoof academic papers which were published in peer reviewed journals.
Why did he do that?
He says he was trying to expose politically correct “nonsense” in social sciences. He, along with two colleagues, wrote “intentionally broken” papers on gender, …
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