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Tag: Sokal hoax

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Jonathan Bartlett: Are Sokal hoaxes really helping reform science?

In Bartlett’s view, serious problems exist in today’s journals but the hoaxers seem so certain of their view that they don’t approach demonstrating it in a scientific way.

Posted on December 2, 2021 Author News Comments(2)
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Michael Egnor asks if materialist neuroscience is an unwitting Sokal hoax

Egnor thinks that while physicist Alan Sokal hoaxed postmodern journals (the famous Sokal hoax. of 1996), materialists like Francis Crick (1916–2004) seem to hoax themselves.

Posted on February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Author News Comments(2)
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Sokal hoaxes strike social science again!

Even the most alert reader may not recall our piece on how gender theory can turn a dog’s life into a, well, dog’s life: Turns out, it may have been another Sokal hoax: Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon Read More…

Posted on October 3, 2018October 5, 2018 Author News Comments(3)

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