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The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~bohmmech/BohmHome/sokalhoax.html

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Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity Open in a new windowLink Details
- Sokal's Social Text article
- http://www.physics.nyu.edu/~as2/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

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VIDEA conference abstract hoax Open in a new windowLink Details
- Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995.
- http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa-paper.html

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The Bogdanoff Affair Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanoff/

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What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article by Alan Sokal.
- http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/noretta.html

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Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.
- http://math.bu.edu/people/nk/rr/

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Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" Open in a new windowLink Details
- Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
- http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html

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