The paper passed peer-review, and the peer-review file was checked and deemed appropriate by the president of the council. How is that superstitious? Have you even read the paper?
> The paper passed peer-review
Sometimes things slip through due to lazy peer-reviewers. This woudl not be the first time that a hoax paper has gotten through.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/so/sokal_affair.htm