Good post. Are you familiar with Sokal's hoax? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
Alan Sokal is a mathematical physicist who wanted to expose how easy it was to publish BS on some well-known journals, especially in domains where there is no adequate peer review process for cross-disciplinary articles...
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From wiki, "Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as "a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense ... structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics] he could find about mathematics and physics"
LOL really good prank. i had a good laugh myself to find the reviewers fell for it
Yeah. I know Alan, as 25 years ago I was a postgrad student at NYU and he was a professor. Very bright man, always questioning the establishment...