The area of large studies was founded in and is still dominated by Anglo-American academics today.
” Fat research” might be too” Anglo- American”, according to editors at an scientific journal that research “fatness”.
The readers of Overweight Reports: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society want to see different beliefs in a call for documents that will be published in October 2025. The book earlier fell for a fake “grievance research” report about “fat bodybuilding”.
The reporters wrote that” theory and philosophical explorations that have been developed in anglo-American settings run the risk of being understood as general rather than national or regional.” This makes it necessary for e.g. Europe-based scholarship to convert the industry into their particular contexts.
In response to two email requests for comment sent last month asking for more details about how to propagate large studies and what the absence of documents meant, Editor-in-Chief Carla Pfeffer did not respond.
She analyses LGBT problems at Michigan State University and is a sociologist there.
Her study interests include” chest- bound practices among transgender and no- linear populations” and another Gay health topics, according to her private website.
Lene Christiansen, a Denmark- based director for this” specific issue”, even did not respond to requests for opinion.
Researchers can choose from a variety of subjects for publication in this specific edition.
They include:” The intersections of obesity and other disadvantaged positionalities in German contexts”,” The logic between Anglo- National large studies and Western scholarship”, and” Large activism across Europe”, according to the journal.
The area of “fat research” has drawn criticism from cultural critic Helen Pluckrose.
Pluckrose, who helped guide the “grievance research” hoax to highlight the small publication standards among some scientific fields, said “fat studies” is based in “radical feminism”.
Pluckrose, and her co- assassins James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, also had a report published in Fat Research.
She wrote in The Critic in 2019, criticizing the field:
This is exactly what is happening, despite the fact that it seems unbelievable that any activism or scholarship on behalf of those who are overweight, obese, and morbidly obese — those who are imminently in danger of dying — would work so hard to stop people from getting scientific research to influence their choices about their diet and weight. This was inevitable because the scholarship has its roots in a particular form of postmodern theory that is specifically anti-science.
The ideas of fat studies can be dangerous, Pluckrose said, by minimizing the harms of being overweight.
Because obesity is a very dangerous health condition, she wrote in The Critic,” There is a genuine need for activism and advocacy for the obese.” ” Even when we know this, it can be difficult to take control of it for all kinds of reasons, many of them psychological”.
We should be able to address beliefs and behaviors that lead to becoming dangerously overweight in the same way as we recognize eating disorders that lead to people becoming dangerously underweight as a psychological issue requiring treatment.
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