THE INSIDER: The penis is mightier than ...
Fake news abounds: peer-reviewed academic journal Cogent Social Sciences published a hoax gender-studies paper entitled The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct
Huffpost SA is not alone in being scammed by people trying to make a point about the prevalence of bias and fake news in the media. Last week the peer-reviewed academic journal Cogent Social Sciences published a hoax gender-studies paper entitled The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct. DailCaller.com reported that two academics, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, used pen names to successfully submit the paper, which cited 20 sources, none of which they say they read and five of which were fakes "published" in journals that don’t actually exist.The paper opened by stating that the "androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial" and went downhill from there, to a conclusion that stated in part that "penises are not best understood as the male sexual organ ... but instead as an enacted social construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future generations...
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