Indeed, the most famous fake paper from Boghossian, Pluckrose, and Lindsay insisted that dog parks promote “rape culture.” The paper was so absurd that then-Campus Reform reporter Tori Airaksinen looked into it and discovered the “author” had lied about her credentials. Various other media outlets picked up the story and Airaksinen’s reporting, which led the scholars to expose their hoax early.
Other studies that were accepted for publication included one that suggested we stop praising people who build muscle instead of those who build fat, another that encouraged men to anally self-penetrate to “decrease transphobia and increase feminist values,” and another that claimed men went to “breastaurants” such as Hooters “because they are nostalgic for patriarchal dominance and enjoy being able to order attractive women around.”