Well, what did you EXPECT?
Via UncommonDescent:

Dr. Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State, joined two other academics to hoax the purveyors of gender studies and kindred fields committed to turning personal gripes into taxpayer-funded “studies.”

Boghossian and his colleagues submitted articles including an analysis of “canine rape culture” and an extract from “Mein Kampf” translated into the language of feminist theory. These were accepted by what counts as “major” journals in these pseudo-disciplines. In 2018, Boghossian and his colleagues made public these hoaxes, which elegantly and hilariously made the point that these fields’ “scholarship” cannot be distinguished from applesauce and horsefeathers.

Almost instantly Boghossian’s university brought him up on charges of “research misconduct.” The theory was that he should have told the editors of the journals that he was hoaxing them. Allegations of this sort multiplied. He was cleared of most of them, but Portland State stuck with the idea that he had carried out “improper research on human subjects.”

No sympathy.

When you're allegedly a "philosopher", you should understand how human nature works. You should know how the mind of an administrator works, especially when you're dealing with them every day.

My father understood this point early in his academic career, and told me about it in 1959. Nothing has changed since then. This is a permanent fact of human nature.

Knowing the mind of an administrator, and knowing the current climate of abnormally ferocious tyranny, Boghossian shouldn't have EXPECTED to get away with mocking the admins.

The hoaxes haven't caused any improvement in the blind granite-brained stupidity of the "social" "sciences", because granite doesn't learn. The hoaxes only caused Boghossian to lose his job.

"Working within the system" always fails, always ends up helping the system. You have to choose whether you need the money more than the integrity. If you need the money more, stay in the system and don't waste effort trying to change it. The system will never change, and the system wants you to waste your effort. If you need the integrity more than the money, just GET OUT.

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Sidenote.... Not precisely relevant, but I haven't been hitting this point often enough.... In earlier times it was easier to GET OUT because normal people could earn interest on savings. A prudent scholar who knew that his integrity had a limit of tolerance could save enthusiastically for ten years while gritting his teeth. Then he could cut loose with a reliable basic income while he found a better way of achieving his scholarly purpose. Now interest on savings is extinct and young scholars are burdened with interest-bearing debt. GETTING OUT is vastly harder. This is fully intentional, and the admins know it.

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