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The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- October 31, 2018
- Duration
- 1h 58m
- Channel
- The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Peter Boghossian is a philosophy instructor, activist, author, speaker, and atheism advocate. He is a full-time faculty member at Portland State University. James Lindsay has a Ph.D. in mathematics and a background in physics and is also the author of three books.
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Peter Boghossian
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Peter Boghossian and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay explores Hoax papers expose grievance studies, identity politics, and academic decay Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay describe their year‑long “grievance studies” hoax: writing deliberately absurd but ideologically flattering academic papers that were enthusiastically peer‑reviewed, accepted, awarded, and published in certain gender, race, and fat‑studies journals. They argue this reveals a corrupted scholarly ecosystem where activism and theory trump evidence, falsifiability, and genuine critical inquiry. The conversation broadens into a critique of identity politics, victimhood culture, and postmodern power analysis, which they see as a quasi‑religious movement driving censorship, self‑censorship, and institutional capture in universities, media, and tech. Rogan, Boghossian, and Lindsay warn that this dynamic suppresses open debate, infantilizes students, and ultimately harms progressive goals by fueling backlash and polarization.
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