In 2018, Lindsay, Pluckrose, and Boghossian published four “hoax” articles within a number of disciplines that rely on critical theory (e.g., gender studies, feminism). When revealing the project, the authors argued that they wanted to expose these fields as being primarily motivated by ideology and social justice rather than knowledge generation. Their method tested the hypothesis that editors and reviewers will support papers that advocate “ludicrous” ideas including “fat bodybuilding.” In the pages of this journal, I presented a critique of their procedure, and the authors have provided a commentary on my article. After discussing the issue of whether their project was a hoax or not, I will argue that the crux of the matter is whether the papers were ludicrous/absurd. I will show how the authors made a fundamental error in their method; they failed to assess whether their ideas were indeed ludicrous/absurd.

在2018年，Lindsay，Pluckrose和Boghossian在许多依赖批判理论的学科（例如性别研究，女权主义）中发表了四篇“骗局”文章。在揭示该项目时，作者认为他们希望揭露这些领域主要是受意识形态和社会正义的推动，而不是知识的产生。他们的方法验证了以下假设：编辑和审稿人将支持那些提倡“荒谬”想法（包括“肥胖健美”）的论文。在这本杂志的页面上，我对他们的程序进行了评论，并且作者提供了评论。在我的文章上。在讨论了他们的项目是否是一个骗局之后，我将争论的重点是这些论文是否荒唐/荒谬。我将展示作者是如何在他们的方法上犯了一个基本错误的；他们未能评估他们的想法是否确实荒唐可笑。