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Based on short questions and answers, not every physicist could distinguish his social science writings from those of real physicists.Science war commentary — In spring of 1997, the postmodern philosopher Fred Newman responded to the Sokal Affair publishing hoax in the paper “Science Can Do Better than Sokal: A commentary on the So-called Science Wars”, which he presented at the Postmodernism and the Social Sciences conference at the New School for Social Research; Prof.

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ISBN 0-8223-1881-4. Sokal, Alan D.and Bricmont, Jean.

The submission was an experiment testing the magazine’s editorial practice of intellectual rigor, to learn if an academic journal, would “publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions.”The article, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct; it was published in the Social Text Spring/Summer 1996 “Science Wars” issue.

Hilgartner said that the intellectual impact of the successful Sokal hoax cannot be be attributed to its quality as a “demonstration”, but that it stemmed from journalistic hyperbole and from the anti-intellectual biases of some American journalist.In public — The Sokal Affair scandal extended from academia to the public press.

The three MIT graduate students who wrote the hoax article said they were ignorant of the Sokal Affair until after submitting their article. Bogdanov Affair: about theoretical physics, called a reverse-Sokal controversy. Jan Hendrik Schà¶n: published 28 fraudulent papers in Nature, Science, and the Physical Review, which were logically consistent with the fabricated data. Rosenhan experiment: the admission of healthy pseudo-patients to twelve psychiatric hospitals. The Report From Iron Mountain: a hoax government think tank report. Project Alpha: a hoax by James Randi perpetrated upon a psychic foundation. Atlanta Nights: a hoax, by a group of professional authors, perpetrated upon a vanity press. Ern Malley: a modernist poetry hoax. Disumbrationism: a modern art hoax. A Book of Poetic Experiments: a modernist poetry hoax. Nat Tate: a 1998 art world hoax, by William Boyd. Chomskybot, a computer program that generates nonsense text resembling the writing of Noam Chomsky. Continuity thesis False document Fashionable Nonsense — Sokal and Bricmont demonstrate the misuse of science and mathematics in giving authority to intellectually vacuous postmodern philosophic writings; a chapter explains the Sokal Affair parody-article hoax. Fictitious entry Journal club — a forum for peer review, “after the ink is dry”. Journal of Irreproducible Results Obscurantism On Bullshit Paradelle — Poet Billy Collins’s invented poetic form, published with fraudulent “historical” footnotes, in the Phi Beta Kappa journal The American Scholar, irking some scholars, and inspiring some poets to assume the paradelle as a poetic form; not all were in on the joke. “Politics and the English Language” (1946), by George Orwell, criticizing the use of verbose language in contemporary political British writing. Science wars — an entry with more information about the Sokal Affair hoax. Gross, Paul R.and Levitt, Norman.

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