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Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/so...   

Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars Save
Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.
http://math.bu.edu/people/nk/rr/   

The Bogdanoff Affair Save
John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanoff/   

The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? Save
Analysis of some of the statements of prominent physicists drawing analogies between physics concepts and societal and philosophical issues. Suggests that physicists don't entirely have their own house in order.
http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de...   

Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity Save
Sokal's Social Text article
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/~as2/trans...   

VIDEA conference abstract hoax Save
Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995.
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa-...   

What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove Save
Article by Alan Sokal.
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/so...   

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