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To: Billthedrill; SunkenCiv; dennisw; wardaddy

Here’s the prank that I half remembered:

The Sokal Affair (1996)

The Prankster: Alan Sokal, a physics professor at NYU.

The Stunt: Sokal wrote a purposefully nonsensical, pseudo-scientific paper titled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.”

He intentionally used contradictions, meaningless jargon, and false science to test if a leading cultural studies journal would publish it simply because it sounded good and flattered their ideological biases.

The Result: The journal Social Text published the paper.

Sokal then immediately revealed in another publication that the article was a hoax, sparking a massive, years-long debate in the humanities over academic standards and peer review.


32 posted on 06/19/2026 4:26:33 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Pelham

Who is demented enough to devote years to studying very advanced linguistics a la Chomsky. This is like a seal proving he can balance a spinning beach ball on his nose. Of course linguistics is a valid field, but the advanced kind looks like intellectual masturbation. That only universities will pay for.


35 posted on 06/19/2026 5:41:25 PM PDT by dennisw (Qatarlson the Insufferable blowhard. There is no limit to human stupidity |||||||||||||||||||||||||)
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To: Pelham

He was pranking post-modernism and its bllshit lingo. Post-colonialism is anti-white with guaranteed university jobs for blacks/minorities. Thus it has replaced post modernism, that was run by white men and white women/ with heavy gay participation.

Lets get real here. For both of the above, this is the godless and and the mind impaired, doing their best to score nice paychecks for their bullsht musings.


39 posted on 06/20/2026 8:02:44 AM PDT by dennisw (Qatarlson the Insufferable blowhard. There is no limit to human stupidity |||||||||||||||||||||||||)
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