| 1. Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" |
| Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation. |
| http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/inde... |
| 2. Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars |
| Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics. |
| http://math.bu.edu/people/nk/rr/ |
| 3. The Bogdanoff Affair |
| John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax. |
| http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanoff/ |
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| 4. The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? |
| Analysis of some of the statements of prominent physicists drawing analogies between physics concepts and societal and philosophical issues. Suggests that physicists don't entirely have their own house in order. |
| http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~bohmme... |
| 5. VIDEA conference abstract hoax |
| Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995. |
| http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa-paper.ht... |
| 6. What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove |
| Article by Alan Sokal. |
| http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/nore... |
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