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  1. Remember when thaty guy submitted a fake article to a social science scholarly journal?

    “The article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”, published in the Social Text Spring/Summer 1996 “Science Wars” issue, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. At that time, the Journal did not practice peer review fact-checking and did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist. On its date of publication (May 1996), 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”.”

  2. donatella,

    Mr.B’s new IT specialist called,
    he said ” cut it out!”

    dibs,
    I will definitely read that, thanks.

    bxgrl,
    if Capitalism isn’t a “cultural” driver
    then why is there a KFC at the foot of the
    Pyramids of Giza?

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