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volumes or in newspapers and on internet platforms. The mentioned gender studies critics are valued by members of the New Right, as an interview of AfD politician Beatrix von Storch with Ulrich Kutschera shows (Freie Welt TV 2018). Kutschera also has been interviewed by radio stations (Kutschera 2016: 33-37), his views have been cited by influential magazines (e.g., Spiegel Online 2015, Handelsblatt 2016), and he is cited affirmatively by a psychiatrist at a “Demo für alle” conference1. Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz and Manfred Spieker have spoken at another “Demo für alle” conference2. Gerl-Falkovitz has also been invited as speaker at a conference organized by the influential conservative Konrad Adenauer foundation whose program flyer cited Kutschera as having proven that gender studies are not scientific3. freiewelt.net ef-magazin.de Pi.news.net Name field author citations author citations author citations Prof. Dr. Gerhard Amendt Sociology 3 19 1 12 0 2 Prof. Dr. Günter Buchholz Economics and Consulting 0 30 0 2 0 1 Dr. habil. Heike Diefenbach Sociology, Ethnology 1 8 3 4 0 0 Prof. Dr. Hanna-Barbara Gerl- Falkovitz Philosophy, political science 1 5 0 1 0 1 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kutschera Plants physiology and evolution biology 3 8 0 1 1 0 Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer Zoology and evolution biology 0 5 0 0 1 1 Prof. Dr. Harald Seubert Philosophy, Theology 0 2 0 0 0 2 Prof. Dr. Manfred Spieker Christian social sciences. 3 9 0 0 0 2 Prof. Dr. Manfred Spreng Neurosciences 0 1 0 2 0 0 Dr. Alexander Ulfig Philosophy, Sociology 156 11 19 4 0 0 Table 2: interconnections of gender studies critics with right-wing blogs and platforms Populist writer Akif Pirincci uses the same biologist argumentation figures like professor Meyer and repeats his accordant text passage nearly verbally (Pirincci 2015: 25f.). As table 2 shows, some of the gender studies critic scientists actively build networks with populist and right-wing milieus: they have published articles on right-wing online blogs and platforms. Others are crosslinked passively: they are mentioned quite often in populist media. Some of the critics also have their own right-wing circles, influential platforms or blogs, like Heike Diefenbach, who is founder, and frequent author, of Sciencefiles.org, Alexander Ulfig, who is 1 See the video of the talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ZHc85nXZWjw. 2 See the program of the conference, https://demofueralle.wordpress.com/symposium/symposium-2016/. 3 See the flyer of the conference, http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_24565-1442-1-30.pdf?171213101703. 181