upon reading this paper

https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1541475154378858499

we must sadly report that Ray is mistaken and this...
thing...“deboonks” nothing

except perhaps the notion that only artsy types and Fiji-fan feminists write dodgy sus papers
How bad is it?
Time for a rundown.
Let's dive in!/1 It kind of starts bad enough, but not superbadly, with peculiarly structured samples
Check for yourself: Autogynephilic Natal Males - 4 discrete samples (148, 27, 96, 1278 ); /2

Our attention was recently drawn to a particularly egregious paper that is used to stir a new moral panic
so we couldn't help but grab a fulltext and see what it's all about
(spoiler: it's bad down there but do read the thread to find out gory details)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… 1/ First, right off the abstract bat, the study didn't even include non-dollbro baseline so the moral panic SWERFs are trying to stir up here is completely baseless and stupid (as every single other SWERF concern)

https://twitter.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1580982356173025280

BUT THERE ARE MORE CLOWNS IN THIS CAR! /2

We were informed in DMs that the article on "objectification" we previously discussed is not "bleeding edge of state of the art" and the actual bleeding edge of objectification research is this work (linked), so let's have a field day journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/14…

/1 the paper contains more red flags than a Soviet flag factory, with lots of claims that are reminiscent of good old priming. However, we decided to jump right into the fray and see what were the tools for "detecting" the so-called self-"objectification" that were "deployed"/2

Today we would like to draw an attention to a tendentious paper that is too bad to be funny (the only humor comes from people who take the "evil objectification pixels" the paper tries to "prove" seriously, and generally this Frankenstein of a concept) /1
link.springer.com/article/10.100…. A lot of papers like this define objectification weirdly, with oddball, borderline alien assumptions about why humans would enjoy sex. Let's take a gander at what did papers cited in this "work" do to substantiate the spooky objectification peril /2

a while ago this paper was brought up at our internal meeting.

Upon a closer look we saw that @WorldDevJournal published a trash tornado of bad science that frankly dwarfs 95% of papers we have seen before

This "work" is a true master-piss of garbage science (thread)🧵/1 Things start out innocuous enough - authors shy away from defining "trafficking". One can and probably should assume they use UNODC definition which is a bit uncharitable (it's a shaky mess of a definition that

/2

After discovering the paper on "white empiricism" brought to our attention by @ConceptualJames we will present some of the good bits from the paper.
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108… @ConceptualJames The author thinks Einsteins theory of relativity is undermined by an underrepresentation of women in physics, and justify this by refering to Eintsteins work on inertial reference frames.

"Minor-Attracted People" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… "I'm not attracted to kids. I only fuck them for power reasons."

Not a diary... dcqr.ucpress.edu/content/8/1/25 The actual introduction.

We're sure that this will be a groundbreaking contribution to the field of Porn Studies. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Oh lord.

A peer-reviewed paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Lots of interest here. We should perhaps try to dig it up and have a read. What do you think?

The "dogs as a tool of white supremacy" scholar has co-authored this paper, published by Social Science and Medicine: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… The peer reviewers didn't question this? Intriguing.

Academia or kindergarten? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… This is the actual introduction.

"Sociology of surfing" scholar discovers that "quality waves are not evenly distributed" 😂 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… How predictable.

Recently, in the peer-reviewed journal "Fat Studies": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… A wide range of topics...

It has come to our attention that some people are suggesting that "dog paper" was accepted because reviewers are busy people and
"is same as physics journal accepting a paper with fake data"

To dispel such notions, we shall publish reviewer comments to Dog rape paper.
[thread] It starts off slow and fairly optimistic, with paper being rejected (they almost dodged the bullet here, didn't theEE

New buzzword: Ecosexuality (@agnesscott) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @agnesscott Intriguing questions.

You can't make this shit up. We are indebted to the field of Gender Studies for bringing these injustices to life. (@UWaterloo) ingentaconnect.com/contentone/cog… @UWaterloo We weren't able to get access to the full paper. There's no way in hell we're paying $25 for this tax-funded paper.

In the Annals of Leisure Research (@autuni): tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… @AUTuni Um... ok.

This is what @Mizzou considers to be PhD level scholarship ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/1… @Mizzou Remember that this is not a high school essay.

Recently in "Feminist Theology": journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… We need more scholars to "occupy the bottom space" 😂

When social scientists get sick... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Speaking of violins...