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The Cosmic Hoax: An Expose. Dr. Greer takes the viewer back through modern history, starting in the 1920's showing/proving with evidence about Aliens and UFO's... the cover ups from top government entities, and has almost reached the point of no return.
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- Documentary
- Michael Mazzola
- 2021
Oct 15, 2018 · The “Grievance Studies” or “Sokal Squared” hoax aimed to discredit gender and critical race studies. Did it work?
Oct 12, 2020 · Rather, to justify WPS intervention, the agenda as evidenced by NAPs further minoritizes women vis-a-vis the Global North. Yet, it is worth remembering that, globally, these women are not minorities. Minoritizing women of colour in global politics is an active practice linked to histories of violent oppression and one which WPS risks reproducing.
- Social Justice Theory
- Constructed Identities
- No Truth, only Discourse
- ‘Cancel Culture’
- The Question of Universities
- Combatants in The War
Pluckrose, a US magazine editor who describes herself as an exile from the humanities, and Lindsay, a mathematician and writer on politics and religion, were participants in the controversial 2018 Grievance Studiesproject, which aimed to discredit gender and race studies by submitting hoax articles to academic journals. By getting articles on bogus...
This Theory is cynical, according to the authors, because it finds oppression everywhere — even in the best intentions of progressive people and their movements of reform. And it is bad for everyone, including disadvantaged groups, they say, because it gets in the way of an empirical approach to understanding and correcting social ills. One aim of ...
Social hierarchies exist. Prejudice can be perpetuated by the unthinking behaviour of individuals. Discriminatory treatment of women and black people is sometimes embedded in institutions. Pluckrose and Lindsay do not deny this. They admit legal reforms have not eliminated racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. They recognise discriminat...
Is Social Justice Theory as pernicious as Pluckrose and Lindsay want us to believe? Their criticism gets most of its plausibility from applications of Theory that do seem harmful and even absurd. Disability, for instance, is not merely a social construction. Treating it as such may prevent the use of treatments that could make the lives of people b...
The most problematic aspect of Pluckrose and Lindsay’s book is the blame it heaps on humanities departments of universities for stirring up a cancel culture and the culture wars. This gives ammunition to those who want to defund humanities and discourage students from taking humanities courses. It gives support to the position of the Australian Fed...
Pluckrose and Lindsay agree that threats to free speech can come from the right as well as the left, but their preoccupation with the latter indicates where they want to put most of the blame. Cynical Theories is, on one hand, a scholarly book. Pluckrose and Lindsay are well versed in the literature they criticise, as their participation in the Gri...
Apr 25, 2022 · A dozen scientists, politicians, and campaigners say they have been tricked into participating in online events promoting climate-change denial. The events were organised by the Creative Society...
Doctor Grier goes over the past 100 years of the UFO phenomenon carefully picking the most important dates in euphology and explaining them so that. Even the most innocent and hardened euphologist will gain great knowledge from listening to this.
Dec 7, 2021 · In this article, in response to several calls for new theoretical and analytical tools to help us understand the nature of contemporary anti-feminist and anti-queer politics, I introduce the concept of ‘discourse capture’.
