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archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 28 Jul 2022 20:46:34 UTC Redirected from history←priornext→ All snapshots from host www.wsj.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee OPINION | COMMENTARY Fake News Comes to Academia How three scholars gulled academic journals to publish hoax papers on ‘grievance studies.’ By Jillian Kay Melchior Updated Oct. 5, 2018 6:37 pm ET ILLUSTRATION: CHAD CROWE Editor’s note: This article was published online Oct. 2 and has been updated. The existence of a monthly journal focused on “feminist geography” is a sign of something gone awry in academia. The journal in question—Gender, Place & Culture—published a paper online in May whose author claimed to have spent a year observing canine sexual misconduct in Portland, Ore., parks. The author admits that “my own anthropocentric frame” makes it difficult to judge animal consent. Still, the paper claims dog parks are “petri dishes for canine ‘rape cu

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