Portland State philosophy professor Peter Boghossian, along with two others, figured they’d conduct an experiment and submit bogus articles on feminism, race studies, etc. to see if elite journals would fall for them, reported Campus Reform. Spoiler alert: they did. Peter and his trickster crew got seven articles published, ones ranging from “rape culture” in dog parks to a feminist version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. But social justice academics were not about to let Peter get away with making an utter fool of them.

Portland State’s Institutional Review Board requires researchers to get “informed consent” from “human subjects” before conducting their experiment. But, of course, asking people if you can prank them kind of defeats the whole point of pranking them.

Here’s my issue. It would be one thing if the experiment these guys ran totally backfired and the academic journals rejected all of the essays. But out of the 20 articles Peter and his team submitted, seven got approved, seven got denied, with the rest left in limbo. I don’t know about you, but to me, when it comes to separating hard-hitting genius from hocus pocus garbage, the role of scholarship, 50 percent doesn’t seem like too good of a score.

And while it’s unclear how Portland State’s going to punish Peter, a dozen faculty members wrote a letter bashing the professor’s experiment. They said that “the ‘hoaxes’ are simply lies peddled to journals, masquerading as articles. They are designed not to critique, educate or inspire change in flawed systems, but rather to humiliate entire fields.”

Hmmm…what both humiliates but also triggers social change? A bunch of liberal arts and sciences and humanities professors signed that letter, but not one of them seems to know the word “SATIRE.”

Portland State University’s College Republicans chapter invited radio host Lars Larson to live stream his show at the school, but unfortunately for the radio host, he exercises his right to concealed carry a firearm and Portland State was NOT too pleased about that, according to Campus Reform.

You see, Portland State has a policy that BANS students and employees from carrying firearms on campus. PSU General Counsel Cynthia Starke sent an email to Lars, saying “We are requiring you to affirmatively state that you will not intend to and will not carry a firearm on PSU’s campus, either openly or concealed, during the event hosted by the Portland State College Republicans on October 22, 2018.”

The College Republicans’ faculty advisor, Virginia Luka, sent the group an email suggesting that if the group knowingly invites a guest who plans to break the rules, they could be sanctioned, which the College Republicans took to mean possible defunding or stripping of their recognition as a campus group.

Remember fam, Portland State is a public university, which means it’s subject to state policies and receives taxpayer money. Lars claimed that what the school is doing is unconstitutional, saying that Oregon’s Constitution more strongly upholds the right to bear arms than even the federal Second Amendment and citing a 2011 case in which Western Oregon University suspended a student for carrying on campus only to have a court rule that licensed concealed carry holders were, in fact, allowed to carry firearms on public school property.

Lars didn’t want to get the students in trouble, though, so he didn’t concealed carry at their event. The radio host said he got disinvited from the event but the school says the group cancelled. But Lars did concealed carry on campus Thursday.

Lars can carry on the campus, but the College Republicans told him that even if they joined him in a Facebook livestream while he was doing so, they would get in trouble. That doesn’t seem very fair to me, but what do you guys think?

Protester Heather Clark cut the audio at a Portland State University panel featuring James Damore, the Google employee fired when he dared point out that biological differences between men and women partly explain the gender gap in science, tech, engineering, and math, according to The College Fix. Clark succeeded in silencing the speakers for about 10 minutes and was rewarded for her efforts with a second degree criminal mischief citation and a two-year ban from Portland State.

“I know that some were expecting a violent disruption,” said Clark. “I don’t think that was ever on the table. Bottom line, people like James Damore are absolutely not welcome here. We must make that clear.”

I’m sorry, but absolutely not welcome according to who? Clark’s not even a Portland State student. Who else is tired of progressives delivering these pious dictates from on high, claiming to speak for the people? But it’s only when it benefits them; don’t forget, these are the same clowns who turned the word “populist” into a slur.

“A small walkout and some equipment damage isn’t saying much, but it’s a whole lot louder than nothing,” continues Clark.

Yeah, I guess it’s a whole lot louder if by louder you mean quieter. Silencing someone is the coward’s way out and this lady’s just a less powerful version of Google, who figuratively unplugged Damore for uttering hate facts by depriving him of his livelihood.

Aside from Clark and some others who walked out, there were apparently only a handful of other protesters outside the event with signs depicting famous female scientists, as if Damore said women can’t do science. Because why refute his actual argument on general trends when you can be lazy, misrepresent it as “all women suck at science,” and create a good guy-bad guy narrative that doesn’t stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.