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This video is funny as hell:
Here's a link to an article that responds to the hoax and brings up an accusation of a double standard in how Sokal and now these three professors have attacked left wing Social Science journals, except not pranked journals in the hard sciences. It does bring up a point that this type of bad faith might result in scholars in scientific fields such as Gender Studies, Sociology, Ethnic Studies, etc. retaliating by submitting hoax articles to journals in the Physical sciences such Physics or perhaps publishing bogus Math papers to mock Mathematicians if they can trick the Mathematicians into publishing them as genuine papers. Would this be good in the sense of keeping everyone honest or simply result in pointless bickering?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/virginiahughes/grievance-studies-sokal-hoax
"They set out from the get-go to prank these disciplines but not others."
Here's a link to an article that responds to the hoax and brings up an accusation of a double standard in how Sokal and now these three professors have attacked left wing Social Science journals, except not pranked journals in the hard sciences. It does bring up a point that this type of bad faith might result in scholars in scientific fields such as Gender Studies, Sociology, Ethnic Studies, etc. retaliating by submitting hoax articles to journals in the Physical sciences such Physics or perhaps publishing bogus Math papers to mock Mathematicians if they can trick the Mathematicians into publishing them as genuine papers. Would this be good in the sense of keeping everyone honest or simply result in pointless bickering?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/virginiahughes/grievance-studies-sokal-hoax
"They set out from the get-go to prank these disciplines but not others."