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booboo

@taniwharugby reckon it made it to the SPCA?

taniwharugby

@booboo haha I reckon it was close to going out the window.

@Siam yep I had tears watching it...even the 2nd time when i showed people at work.

Hooroo

@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@booboo haha I reckon it was close to going out the window.

@Siam yep I had tears watching it...even the 2nd time when i showed people at work.

The bird didn't make it! That was a cracking end to that video.

taniwharugby

@Hooroo I thought that it was just one of those 'found footage' clips after he went missing

Yeah I see the guy had been responding that it did make it to the SPCA but wasn't a broken wing.

Tim

Sound is essential for this clip:

https://i.imgur.com/Ym3SNks.gifv

taniwharugby

@Rancid-Schnitzel

infidel

From The Times UK

Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled academic journals

The leading academics Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker have defended a hoaxer who sought to expose politically correct “nonsense” in social sciences.

Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy, faces losing his job at Portland State University in Oregon after he helped create spoof academic papers. These lampooned scholarship in various fields, including the studies of gender, homosexuality and obesity.

He and two collaborators dashed off 20 papers, each deliberately ridiculous and spiked with what the authors later described as “a little bit of lunacy”. Seven were accepted by peer-reviewed journals. One, titled “Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity feminism as an intersectional reply to neoliberal and choice feminism”, was a rewrite of chapter 12 of Hitler’s Mein Kampf with feminist “buzzwords switched in”.

“Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon”, was published under the fake name Helen Wilson in the journal Gender, Place & Culture, which is owned by Taylor & Francis, the British publisher.

Its author described an investigation of the “rape-condoning spaces of hegemonic masculinity” that are public dog-walking parks, which had involved examining “10,000 dogs’ genitals”.

The paper suggested that men should be trained, like canines, to prevent “rape culture”.

“Fat Bodybuilding” showed morbid obesity as a healthy life choice. Another advanced the theory that “it is suspicious that men rarely anally self-penetrate using sex toys, and that this is probably due to fear of being thought homosexual (“homohysteria”) and bigotry against trans people (transphobia)”.

Dr Boghossian and his colleagues said that they were shocked by the ease with which the papers were accepted. “We wanted to see if these disciplines that we called ‘grievance studies’ are compromised by political activism that allows for the laundering of prejudices and opinions into something that gets treated as knowledge,” he added.

An official for Portland State University said that Dr Boghossian had studied “human research subjects” — a reference to the staff and peer-reviewers of the journals— without proper ethical approvals. A further charge relating to the falsification of data is under review and he could lose his job.

Dawkins, well known for his atheist views, wrote to the university: “Do your humourless colleagues who brought this action want Portland State to become the laughing stock of the academic world? Or at least the world of serious scientific scholarship uncontaminated by pretentious charlatans of exactly the kind Dr Boghossian and his colleagues were satirising?”

Dawkins, who is Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor at the University of Oxford, added: “How would you react if you saw the following letter: Dear Mr Orwell, It has come to our notice that your novel, Animal Farm, attributes to pigs the ability to talk, and to walk on their hind legs, chanting ‘Four legs good, two legs better’. This is directly counter to known zoological facts about the Family Suidae, and you are therefore arraigned on a charge of falsifying data…”

Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, wrote of the false data charge: “This strikes me (and every colleague I’ve spoken with) as an attempt to weaponise an important principle of academic ethics to punish a scholar for expressing an unpopular opinion.”

Dr Boghossian said: “Portland State University, like many college campuses, is becoming an ideological community and I’ve demonstrated that I don’t fit the mould. I truly hope the administration puts its institutional weight behind the pursuit of truth but I’ve been given no indication that’s what they intend to do.”

Tracy Roberts, publishing director of Taylor & Francis, said: “This was an elaborate, complex hoax which broke all accepted norms of scholarly communication.” The publisher was taking steps to avoid a repeat, she added.

Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent

Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled academic journals

The leading academics Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker have defended a hoaxer who sought to expose politically correct “nonsense” in social sciences.Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy, faces losing his job at Portland State University in Oregon after he helped create spoof aca

Siam

@infidel
Go for it PSU.
Turn your institution into another Evergreen type University where all prospective students' parents and fee providers will shun enrolment.

Go on fire him ( sorry Peter, but you have value elsewhere) and please publicise your reasons to the max.

Virtue signal your way to bankruptcy

No Quarter

Yeah was going to raise that on the Politics forum. He's getting tons of support from a wide range of prominent professors and intellectuals which is awesome to see, putting big pressure on PSU to justify their actions.

The hoax he was involved with was just brilliant, really exposed what they've termed the "Grievance Studies" areas at Universities for what they are - an absolute scam. Hoping it leads to falling enrollments in those ridiculous degrees.