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He defends the cultural-studies journal Social Text and the field of "science studies," even after they were humiliated through a brilliant prank by physicist Alan Sokal.
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.
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.
That's exactly what's so damning about the hoax perpetrated in 1996 by Alan Sokal.