Sokal text affair

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(thing) by discofever (2.9 y) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:16:51
Alan Sokal, a NYU physicist, decided to prove to the world that postmodern philosophy had gotten muddled in its thinking. So, he sent a paper entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" that contained equal parts nonsense and postmodern buzzwords in to the respected journal Social Text. They published it, thereby proving his point.

See Transgressing the Boundaries, or, if it's still active, www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal for more info.

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