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  • The Response To The ‘Sokal Squared’ Hoax Has Been Mixed

    10/05/2018 6:33:08 PM PDT · by DeweyCA · 6 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 10-5-18 | John Sexton
    Wednesday I wrote about a trio of academics who wrote bogus papers and submitted them to supposedly serious journals to see if nonsense could be passed off as insight given enough earnest social justice framing of the ideas. What they found was that seven of the 20 bogus papers they wrote were accepted for publication. Apparently, the line between serious feminist scholarship and complete sophistry is pretty thin. Dubbed “Sokal Squared” after a similar stunt by Alan Sokal in the late 90s, the hoax has generated a lot of feedback among academics. One of the most positive take came from...