> But anyone who has studied the Sokal hoax knows very well that _Social Text_'s editors were bullied into relaxing their peer-reviewed standards at Sokal's ins

> But anyone who has studied the Sokal hoax knows very well that _Social Text_'s editors were bullied into relaxing their peer-reviewed standards at Sokal's insistence. This is misleading. First, Social Text at the time explicitly did not practice peer review. You can't relax standards that aren't there. Second, their editorial requests were, in their own words: "We requested him (a) to excise a good deal of the philosophical speculation and (b) to excise most of his footnotes." He refused, and they published anyway. Sokal was certainly playing at being a recalcitrant author, but if an author's recalcitrance causes you to publish an article full of gibberish, you have still published gibberish. The Sokal affair is not some knock-down destruction of the fields of postmodern and cultural criticism, but it's certainly a blemish. I encourage anyone who is interested to read http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html > Occasionally propagating "postmodern" meme generators is a childish form of territorial demarcation Or possibly it's just funny. Here's a similar one for discrete math: http://www.theproofistrivial.com/ http://www.theproofistrivial.com/