Boghossian — along with the mathematician James Lindsay, and the medieval-studies independent scholar Helen Pluckrose — was involved in writing and submitting twenty spoof articles to well-respected academic journals. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 25 years and 30 thousand students - in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, seminaries, colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies, and small businesses. The trio also managed to publish a “feminist-oriented revision” of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf, without tipping anyone off to the fact that the submission was part of an elaborate hoax. Boghossian and his two academic colleagues functioned as academic whistleblowers in this case. The papers were designed to demonstrate that you could write any idiotic thing in so-called “grievance studies” fields, and get it published as long as you took the politically correct view, and used the correct jargon. Read the letters of support written by high-profile academics in defence of Peter: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zIll7XmZ0J0lV8K_53hiOryN9yoKyOES Read James and Helen's written piece for Areo magazine – https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/05/academic-freedom-or-social-justice-what-kind-of-university-is-portland-state/ Support the feature-length documentary…2019-01-06T01:03:07.000Z. Over the past 12 months, three scholars—James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian—wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to … Dr. Peter Boghossian's main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts.

James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian wrote 20 fake scholarly papers and had several accepted and published in journals.

Peter's publications can be found in USA TODAY, Areo, New Statesman, Scientific American, Time Magazine, Diálogos, CounterPunch, Cogent Social Sciences, The Philosopher's Magazine, Skeptical Inquirer, Education Policy Analysis Archived, The Clearing House: Educational Research Controversy and Practices, The Radical Academy, Offender Programs Report, Teaching Philosophy, Corrections Today, Informal Logic, Skeptic, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Inside Higher Ed, Essays in Philosophy, Federal Probation Journal, the Journal of Correctional Education, Radical Pedagogy, Allthink, Quillette, Truthout, Motherboard, Free Inquiry, World Religions (ABC-CLIO), Philosophy's Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress, and Christianity is Not Great.

Jesse Singal at New York magazine writes about what’s going down. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option. He and his partners focused on so-called “grievance studies” — areas of academia which advocate on behalf of the supposedly powerless against the supposedly powerful. Pete's Twitter handle: @peterboghossian YouTube channel documenting the project: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHyNSlsz449SOhzpo7ClMEKe9WkXt5GO, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zIll7XmZ0J0lV8K_53hiOryN9yoKyOES, https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/05/academic-freedom-or-social-justice-what-kind-of-university-is-portland-state/, writing and submitting twenty spoof articles. The thing is, Singal demonstrates that Boghossian probably did violate standard IRB protocols to pull off his hoax. It is generally accepted that when journalistic organizations break standard rules for the sake of exposing something harmful to the public interest that could not have been exposed through normal channels — i.e., like going undercover to do an investigation — that the ends justify the means. The linguist Steven Pinker has also defended Boghossian, as has the Canadian philosophy professor Jordan Peterson.

Before coming to Portland State University, Boghossian was a Councilman for the State of Oregon (LSTA) and also served as the Chairman of the Prison Advisory Committee for Columbia River Correctional Institution. But many of Boghossian’s colleagues at Portland State disagree. If you think Boghossian deserves to be punished for breaking the rules, you need to ask yourself if you think all whistleblowers everywhere should be punished for breaking the rules — and if not, why single Boghossian out?