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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?