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[Charles Shapiro]

Alan B Sokal, 1994.

The paper is 
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

A good write up is at 
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/sokal.html

Also see

http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/decon.html

One of my relatives is a Po-Mo professor in Chicago.  I try not to talk
to him much.

--- CHS

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:58, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> Yep. Bad idea. OTOH, should you be able to string all of those hot 
buttons together into a single, largely comprehensable post. people
might appreciate some sharing off list. 8-). Should you manage to
actually write something like that, and have it come off as a serious
post, I'm sure the group will be happy to award you a large ( >2 )number
of Loki points.

> I wish I could remember the physicist up around New York who did
something similar to the supposedly liberal academic establishment ten
years ago or  so. Managed to get a paper past a journal editor, ?peer
review?, which when properly read had zero content, just a monumental
pile of buzz words, hot buttons, and devilish syntax. Also made more
than a few people upset.


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