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The Sokal affair, additionally known as the Sokal hoax, [1] was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies.
Oct 5, 2018 · Three scholars wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions. By Yascha Mounk. James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian, the scholars behind the...
Alan David Sokal (/ ˈsoʊkəl / SOH-kəl; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax,[1] was a scholarly publishing sting perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies.
Alan Sokal and Helen Pluckrose will discuss their hoax article submissions to peer-reviewed journals which provoked major debate on the questions of academic rigour.
Jul 2, 2020 · The publication of NYU physicist Alan Sokal’s 1996 hoax essay in the cultural studies journal Social Text proved the perfect vehicle to reinforce this long-held claim. Despite the presence of numerous false claims and nonsensical argumentation, Sokal’s (1996a) essay, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of ...
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May 11, 2021 · Many aspects of our project, which has come to be known as the “Grievance Studies Affair,” or “Sokal Squared,” have been broadly misunderstood by the public and the scholarly community. The first misunderstanding is that our papers were hoaxes.
