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RE: The issue on Zombie papers in academia: what are they and why are they important?

in #academia8 years ago (edited)

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

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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...