"An obvious example: Sokal hoax. Physicist Alan Sokal have written an scientific article permeated with most obvious scientific nonsense and deliberate vaguenes

"An obvious example: Sokal hoax. Physicist Alan Sokal have written an scientific article permeated with most obvious scientific nonsense and deliberate vagueness and managed to have it published in a scientific journal." The journal was Social Text, a "cultural studies" journal. At the time, according to the same wikipedia page referenced in the article, Social Text did not practice peer review. The fact that Sokal was able to get his paper published tells us nothing about the value of peer review in science