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After seven of their journal submissions were accepted, the three authors revealed their ruse, prompting a little soul-searching—at least from those already sympathetic with their complaints.
Writing at Quillette, fellow academics bemoan the state of their profession. One lecturer at the University of Surrey wrote that for many journals, “ticking off buzzwords” now seems to “stand in for checking the quality of scholarship or the coherence of arguments.” A philosopher at Oxford wrote, “The editors and peer reviewers who handled these papers have revealed their true, vicious attitudes.”
* A buzzword is a word or phrase, new or already existing, that becomes very popular for a period of time.
Now,
in some ways, this proves what we already know. As the professors
behind this hoax explain,
“…making [absurd and horrible ideas] sufficiently politically fashionable can get them validated at the highest levels of academic grievance studies.”
Whole swathes of higher learning are captive to left-wing ideology. Schools and journals are run as searches for oppression and power dynamics instead of truth. But this whole saga reveals more than the nakedness of the academic emperor. It also reveals how ripe the moment is for Christians to offer the education world an alternative.
* the nakedness of the academic emperor; 벌거벗은 학계 임금님
Most of the top universities in the West were not only founded by Christians, but were chartered to teach a universal vision of truth. Almost all of them lost that vision, but it doesn’t mean the task of educating young people, or of conducting and publishing solid research, is over.
These things are part of our heritage as Christians. Wherever Christians went throughout history, education followed. And Christian educators are always at their best /when they educate as if learning points us to God. To learn is, as Johannes Kepler said, “to think God’s thoughts after Him.”
My point is, we’ve done this sort of thing before. Let’s do it again. With mainstream academic journals /going to the dogs, now’s not the time for Christians to lose our educational souls to fashionable nonsense. Now’s the time to recommit to truth.