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... I got another shock when I saw that Alan Sokal was also involved with the Free Speech Union. I loved Sokal’s book, Intellectual Impostures, in which he, with Jean Bricmont, talk ... to the hard right? Declaration of interest. I count Sokal, McCartney and Cohen as friends. I have huge respect for all of them. ...
... both of these papers bear a close resemblance to Alan Sokal’s famous spoof paper, Transgressing the boundaries: towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity (Sokal, 1996). The acceptance of this spoof by a journal, Social Text, and the ...
... spoof paper. This was used to devastating effect by Alan Sokal, to demolish the pretentious nonsense of postmodernism. John C. McLachlan ...
... C. McLachlan of Durham University. He’s now the Alan Sokal of “Integrative medicine”. 15 December 2010. Still stuck at ... can be of any dimension. All this sounds very like Alan Sokal’s famous spoof that revealed the baselesness of ... mis-use of scientific and mathematical vocabulary. Sokal’s essay Pseudoscience and Postmodernism: Antagonists or ...
... 62, 2464-2657, 2006). Barry’s work rivals Alan Sokal’s famous spoof paper, “Transgressing the boundaries: the Hermeneutics of quantum gravity”. Sokal’s paper opens as follows. “There are many natural scientists, ...
... Luce Irigaray. I learned of her through reading Sokal & Bricmonts wonderful book. Intellectual Imposters Short ... Irigaray is another who gets whole-chapter treatment from Sokal and Bricmont. In a passage reminiscent of a notorious feminist ...
... from history? 27 February 2008 Excellent lecture from Alan Sokal (of Intellectual Imposters fame). He drew together the consequences if ...
... profound significance of S & B’s [Sokal and Bricmont’s] wonderfully written, deeply passionate and ...
... an essay by Alan Sokal, published in Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology ...