How academic propaganda is made
One researcher accidentally gives us a glimpse of how pseudo-academic blood libels come to life
A distinctive aspect of the Gaza war has been the prevalence of faux academia. Report after report contained distorted data, wild assumptions, and ludicrous extrapolations that bolster the Hamas narrative of “Israel bad.” Of course, the invented academic field of “genocide studies” is the most egregious, but amongst a packed field, The Lancet, Action on…
