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Old 5th October 2018, 18:40     #5
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Originally Posted by [Malks] Pixie
Sokal did it better, though I do have a soft spot for "Confirmational Response: Bias Among Social Work Journals" by William M. Epstein published in Science, Technology & Human Values.
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Critics of Sokal point out that his paper was never subjected to peer review, and they say it was unfair to expect the editors of Social Text to spot errors concerning math and science. This time there are no excuses. LBP’s papers were fully peer reviewed by leading journals. The postmodernist experts showed that they had no ability to distinguish scholarship grounded in “theory” from deliberate nonsense and faulty reasoning mixed in with hate directed at the disfavored race (white) and sex (“cis” male).

https://quillette.com/2018/10/01/the...emics-respond/
Sokal had a computer generate nonsense, it wasn't peer reviewed, and his purported subject matter was outside the expertise of the editors. AMong other lols these guys literally submitted a section of Mein Kampf to a journal, it passed review, and got published.
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