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Old 02-27-2010, 06:51 PM
jseal jseal is offline
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"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"

I know that sounds like pure BS, and it was! This article was a hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, published in Social Text at the height of the Science Wars.

In it, by presenting carefully worded nonsense, Dr. Sokal illustrated the lack of intellectual rigor practiced by postmodernist critics who had little understanding of the science they criticized.

A marvelous hoax!
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