# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-a-lindsay
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:32.638Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/james-a-lindsay"
name: "James A. Lindsay"
slug: "james-a-lindsay"
description: "James Stephen Lindsay, known professionally as James A. Lindsay, or Conceptual James, is an American author and mathematician. In 2017 and 2018 he, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose submitted hoax articles to academic journals in order to test scholarship and rigor in several academic fields, an act which became known as the grievance studies affair."
tagline: "American mathematician, author, and cultural critic"
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birthDate: "1979-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump