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• Science: Science in Society: Skeptical Inquiry: Hoaxes  (49)

• Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" - Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
• The Bogdanoff Affair - John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax.
• Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars - Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.
• The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? - Analysis of some of the statements of prominent physicists drawing analogies between physics concepts and societal and philosophical issues. Suggests that physicists don't entirely have their own house in order.
• Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity - Sokal's Social Text article
• VIDEA conference abstract hoax - Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995.
• What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove - Article by Alan Sokal.

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