In this episode of The Skeptic Studio, Cory talked to HJ Hornbeck who has done quite a bit of writing for his blog on the recent attempted hoax by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose. We go through some of the reasons it didn't quite prove as much as they think it did. 

Here are some links  

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/driventoabstraction/2018/10/academic-hoax-intellectual-dishonesty

https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/03/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/

https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/05/out-of-control/

https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/06/this-isnt-incompetence/

https://freethoughtblogs.com/reprobate/2018/10/10/the-problemsolution-gap/

studies-hoax-not-academic-scandal.html">https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/grievance-studies-hoax-not-academic-scandal.html

http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jpbs/papers/Vol13-issue5/Version-1/A1305010104.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gdb3QAJtyixuNTvDFBBvh__LQD4gLTJj/view

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

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