The Grievance Studies Hoax, also known as 'Sokal Squared,' refers to a 2017-2018 project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose, who submitted several absurd, nonsensical, or morally questionable papers to high-profile academic journals. The goal was to expose what they perceived as a lack of intellectual rigor in 'grievance' fields like gender studies and critical theory. When several papers—including one about 'dog park rape culture' and a feminist rewrite of a chapter from Mein Kampf—were accepted for publication, the story went viral. In meme culture, it is used to mock institutional gatekeeping, the perceived decline of academic standards, and the adoption of jargon-heavy ideological narratives over empirical evidence.