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I know I'm being unfair, but something about the writing style reminds me of this classic: Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics
by Stratoscope 1y ago
I know I'm being unfair, but something about the writing style reminds me of this classic:
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgre...
- CamperBob2 1y agoOnly a matter of time until we start seeing bogus Hard Science papers like that, now that we've given the Social Text people the tools they need to take their revenge. They will argue that we had it coming, and that it serves us right, and maybe they're not wrong.
- rcxdude 1y agoAlready been done: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/131003-bohannon-science-spoof-open-access-peer-review-cancer https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/131003-boha...
- sydriax 1y agoBen here -- you may be amused to know that Alan Sokal was my dad's freshman roommate in undergrad!
- Stratoscope 1y agoAwesome! We truly have Transgressed the Boundaries. (And I'm curious... The way you said "Ben here" makes me wonder if I know you?)
- sciurus 1y ago(I think we was just introducing himself as Ben Spector, the lead author of the paper.)
- Stratoscope 1y agoD'oh! Thank you, and now I owe Ben an apology.
- Stratoscope 1y agoBen, as in Benjamin Spector? (As noted below by sciurus.) Please accept my sheepish apology for taking an unwarranted potshot at your writing style. OTOH, if I hadn't, none of us would have known about that remarkable connection!