James A. Lindsay: Difference between revisions

'''James Stephen Lindsay''' (born June 8, 1979<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1137208172341604352|title=So, I'm 40 now.|user=conceptualjames|date=June 8, 2019}}</ref>), known professionally as '''James A. Lindsay''',<ref name="twitter.com">{{Cite tweet|number=1289362946817028096|title=Oh, yeah. The A. I was writing atheist leftist books in the conservative Christian South and decided a thin veneer of pseudonym might help keep me safer at the time. The A stands for 'next to S on the keyboard.'|user=conceptualjames|date=August 1, 2020}}</ref> is an American author and cultural critic. He is known for the [[grievance studies affair]], in which he, [[Peter Boghossian]] and [[Helen Pluckrose]] submitted hoax articles to academic journals in 2017 and 2018 to test scholarship and rigor in several academic fields.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/ |title=What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia |last=Mounk |first=Yascha |author-link=Yascha Mounk |date=October 5, 2018 |work=The Atlantic |access-date=October 8, 2018 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007073756/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/ |archive-date=October 7, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Lindsay has written several books including ''[[Cynical Theories]]'' (2020), which he co-authored with Pluckrose. He is also known for promoting [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] [[conspiracy theories]], such as that of [[Cultural Marxism]], and [[LGBT grooming conspiracy theories]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Beauchamp |first=Zack |title=The controversy around hoax studies in critical theory, explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17951492/grievance-studies-sokal-squared-hoax |newspaper=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |date=October 15, 2018 |access-date=February 17, 2021 }}</ref><ref name="Skeptic"/>