Peter Boghossian is a philosophy instructor, activist, author, speaker, and atheism advocate. He is a full-time faculty member at Portland State University. James Lindsay has a Ph.D. in mathematics and a background in physics and is also the author of three books.
The pair (along with magazine editor Helen Pluckrose) published "hoax" articles in real, scholarly journals in order to expose the incompetence and propaganda being applied by leftists to fields like gender studies.