Imagine, for a moment, if Alan Sokal had gotten a like-minded friend who worked at Social Text to fast-track his infamous paper, but by chance someone else did

Imagine, for a moment, if Alan Sokal had gotten a like-minded friend who worked at Social Text to fast-track his infamous paper, but by chance someone else did happen to take a look at it and immediately caught on that it was a huge troll and that their processes had been subverted by someone who wanted to score cheap political points by sneaking a paper into their journal. Would you argue that Social Text would, in that situation, still have some sort of duty to publish the paper? Would you argue they'd have a responsibility to give it a prominent, permanent, place in their archives to avoid accusations of having "disappeared" it? Would you argue that they'd need to air that dirty laundry in public? If they did air it all publicly and honestly, would you treat that as a form of bullying of Sokal and his accomplice(s)? Remember: that would be the powerful journal leveling accusations of deliberate fraud against an academic who submitted the paper, and accusations of, at the very least, dishonesty and violation of review processes against one of their own.