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I think Sokal inadvertently provided the first in a wave of critiques of academic publishing - not necessarily just of this specific "fashion" on the left. We

I think Sokal inadvertently provided the first in a wave of critiques of academic publishing - not necessarily just of this specific "fashion" on the left. We now know from numerous studies that even in scientific journals publishing standards aren't as rigorous/objective as we'd like.

ekglimmer 9y ago
That's what I found interesting about this too, there is a whole rabbit-hole of similar 'experiments' or what have you that people did after learning about Sokal. Another wikipedia page is devoted entirely to scholarly publishing stings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_stings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...). They took place across all of academia, and like you say, end up proving that even the scientific journals are not as rigorous as we may like or think.