Example sentences for: sokal

How can you use “sokal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sokal's paper, intentionally stripped of logic, evidence, and even meaning, was accepted for publication in the cultural studies journal Social Text . True, this was a one-time event, but it was an event so far removed from anything that could possibly occur in a legitimate academic enterprise that it converted agnostics like me, who had doubted the status of cultural studies as an intellectual discipline, into hard-core cynics with no doubt whatsoever.

  • Book -- Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science , by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont;

  • Sokal has delivered the coup de grace : a book-length exposé of the scientific ignorance of today's science bashers" (Heather MacDonald, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say the book overreaches.

  • But what has this got to do with Alan Sokal?


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