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Sokal Affair
- agf 10y agoThe article: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/trans... Sokal announcing the hoax: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/li... The response by Social Text to Sokal announcing the hoax: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/SocialText_reply_LF.pdf http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/SocialText_reply_LF.pdf Sokal's response to Social Text's response: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/reply.html http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/reply.html
- dave2000 10y agoYour move, Social Text. It's worth looking for Chomsky speaking about post-modernism on youtube (or transcripts). Very amusing.
- placeybordeaux 10y agoWow Social Text's response is worse than what is quoted in wikipedia. They include how they regret that other people did not help them save face.
- hmahncke 10y agoReverse Sokal Affair (spoofed physics papers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
- mimo777 10y agoI remember working on a research project in statistical physics and my professor taught us the 'politics' of being published. I was crushed.
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