{"id":730507,"date":"2021-09-08T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=730507"},"modified":"2021-09-08T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:21:41","slug":"a-professor-famous-for-publishing-fake-gender-studies-papers-to-prove-its-absurdity-has-resigned-citing-illiberalism-and-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-professor-famous-for-publishing-fake-gender-studies-papers-to-prove-its-absurdity-has-resigned-citing-illiberalism-and-retaliation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Professor Famous For Publishing Fake Gender Studies Papers To Prove Its Absurdity Has Resigned, Citing \u2018Illiberalism\u2019 And \u2018Retaliation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-professor-famous-for-publishing-fake-gender-studies-papers-to-prove-its-absurdity-has-resigned-citing-illiberalism-and-retaliation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=730507&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1129725270-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University who was one of three academics who published absurdly fake gender studies papers to prove a point, has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Boghossian sent a letter to the university\u2019s provost on Wednesday morning and published a copy of Bari Weiss\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/my-university-sacrificed-ideas-for?fbclid=IwAR2lkqxpzYAALeL8JLDF-XV83GuqEdmIYV3Pz2okaEeTHR6uu365Ew-Fiyg\">substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boghossian began by noting how, over the past decade, he had invited numerous speakers to his class with differing viewpoints, \u201cfrom Flat-Earthers to Christian apologists to global climate skeptics to Occupy Wall Street advocates.\u201d He said he invited them mostly because he <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> agree with them, but added that they added value to his classroom by allowing students to learn to challenge ideas respectfully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never once believed&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;nor do I now&nbsp;<em>\u2014&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching,\u201d Boghossian wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent years, this has changed, Boghossian wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division,\u201d he wrote. \u201cStudents at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/10-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-2020\/\">have abdicated<\/a>&nbsp;the university\u2019s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uwNO1PeehWc\">students are now afraid<\/a>&nbsp;to speak openly and honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he saw the \u201cilliberalism\u201d early on at PSU, when students refused to engage with different viewpoints and anyone questioning \u201capproved narratives\u201d about diversity training was dismissed, as was anyone who asked for evidence to justify new policies. Further, teaching philosophies written by white men would get someone accused of bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>Boghossian wrote that he was retaliated against for speaking out against academia\u2019s preferred narratives of victimhood. He discussed accusations against him by a white male student who claimed Boghossian beat his wife and children, among other things. The professor noted that he received no due process during the university\u2019s investigation into him after the student\u2019s allegations. The investigation concluded there was \u201cinsufficient evidence\u201d to prove he had violated school policies, but recommended he \u201creceive coaching\u201d anyway.<\/p>\n<p>He said the absurdity of the investigation and the corruption of academia led him to take part in the hoax papers, which The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/scholars-publish-absurd-gender-studies-papers-ashe-schow\">covered<\/a>. After the hoax was uncovered and Boghossian came forward, his university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/professor-who-published-fake-gender-studies-papers-ashe-schow\">investigated<\/a> him again, this time alleging he had violated ethics with his obviously fake studies that were designed to prove a point \u2013 that Gender Studies journals would accept absurd stories that conformed to a preferred narrative \u2013 a point Boghossian proved. Following the investigation, Bohossian was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/he-helped-expose-absurdity-gender-studies-and-was-ashe-schow\">ordered<\/a> to complete \u201ctraining specified by the Director of Research Compliance prior to any future work regarding human subjects\u201d and banning him \u201cfrom any future human subjects work\u201d and \u201call sponsored research\u201d until he completed that training.<\/p>\n<p>Boghossian wrote to the PSU provost that he thought that if he \u201cexposed the flawed thinking on which Portland State\u2019s new values were based, I could shake the university from its madness.\u201d He was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the university investigation, professors and activists disrupted public discussions he put on with academics opposed to \u201ccancel culture\u201d such as Christina Hoff Sommers and Bret Weinstein. The harassment continued for years, Boghossian wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the years that followed were marked by continued harassment. I\u2019d find<a href=\"https:\/\/peterboghossian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fot2.jpg\">&nbsp;flyers<\/a>&nbsp;around campus of me with a Pinocchio nose. I was spit on and threatened by passersby while walking to class. I was informed by students that my colleagues were telling them to avoid my classes. And, of course, I was subjected to more investigation,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI wish I could say that what I am describing hasn\u2019t taken a personal toll. But it has taken exactly the toll it was intended to: an increasingly intolerable working life and without the protection of tenure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wrote that PSU has failed to uphold the freedom to question ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn doing so it has failed not only its students but the public that supports it. While I am grateful for the opportunity to have taught at Portland State for over a decade, it has become clear to me that this institution is no place for people who intend to think freely and explore ideas,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThis is not the outcome I wanted. But I feel morally obligated to make this choice. For ten years, I have taught my students the importance of living by your principles. One of mine is to defend our system of liberal education from those who seek to destroy it. Who would I be if I didn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University who was one of three academics who published absurdly fake gender studies papers to prove a point, has resigned.Boghossian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}