The Mail on Sunday

Where PC means just Plain Crazy

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LAST week I wrote that British universiti­es were turning into politicall­y correct cults. Of course, it’s worse in America where a trio of academics have just carried out a highly revealing piece of research.

Concerned about the spiralling numbers of pseudo-scientific papers on gender, race and sexuality – what they call ‘grievance studies’ – they submitted 20 fake pieces of research to respected academic journals.

One examined dog rape culture. Another explored Mein Kampf as a feminist text. A third asked whether white male students should be forced to sit on the floor in chains. Seven nonsense papers were accepted, and seven were in the submission process before the project was exposed.

It’s impossible to know whether to laugh or cry.

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