Two cheers for the pub test of academic research

"The “pub test” is part of a renewed push, evident throughout international politics, to restore white male supremacy to the public conversation" It's rather more the reality that it is the taxes paid by those 'in the pub' who are paying for the research to be conducted.

Thank you for your comment. I agree completely that researchers should love the pub test because, among other reasons, '...the taxes paid by those 'in the pub' who are paying for the research to be conducted'. But we must also be conscious of why it is the pub, not the knitting club, that is often invoked. Which is what the article says. Yours, Hannah