* The original hoax article, “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” was published by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay in the academic journal Cogent Social Sciences.
* Simultaneously they published this lambasting commentary.
* Salon‘s Phil Torris deflated the hoax’s significance in a scathing piece.
* Professor James Taylor agreed, arguing that the hoax was merely a big cock up, primarily on the ground that the journal required authors to pay for publication.
* Now enter Professor Janice Fiamengo with relevant nuancing information about the arguably reputable status of the journal in question, despite its pay-for-publication business model:
