I remember how absurd that thing was, and I always feel bad for the Sokal experiment getting lumped in with it. Proving that a journal will publish incomprehens

I remember how absurd that thing was, and I always feel bad for the Sokal experiment getting lumped in with it. Proving that a journal will publish incomprehensible gibberish is a very different result than proving that some journals will publish papers that you personally think are silly, but which are otherwise coherent and meaningful and so on. Ironically, my personal takeaway from the grievance studies thing was "it turns out that niche social science journals have higher standards than I'd have thought."