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[Bi_3]

"We assumed that if we were merely clear in our moral implications that maleness is intrinsically bad and that the penis is somehow at the root of it, we could get the paper published in a respectable journal."

http://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/19/hoax-science-paper-says-penis-social-construct-worsens-climate-change-11302?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

[Dscans]

"We assumed that if we were merely clear in our moral implications that maleness is intrinsically bad and that the penis is somehow at the root of it, we could get the paper published in a respectable journal."

http://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/19/hoax-science-paper-says-penis-social-construct-worsens-climate-change-11302?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

In their tell-all article in Skeptic, the authors admit they jammed the paper full of jargon and made it purposefully incoherent.

A new team of hoaxers has struck again, this time in the journal Cogent Social Science.

[BurtReynolds]

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[Anders]

That's the weirdest thing I've heard this week.

[BurtReynolds]

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[Citizen Dick]

I'm really sorry to hear that Burt. Maybe next time pick a more neutrally acknowledged colour like yellow. I mean c'mon, the people eat eater was purple. Ya know?

[BurtReynolds]

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