red faced at social text


Commrades:

on an entirely unrelated topic, has anyone kept up with the recent "social
text" incident, in which a real scientist submitted a bogus paper making a
parody of a jargon ridden post modern critique of science... and got it
published? He went public with it a few weeks ago (got on the front page
of the NY times, no less) and embarassed the hell out of the editorial
committee.

I've been in correspondence with him since the incident, and he has sent me
an address for related articles available on the Web (including the essay
itself). The address is:

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/physics/faculty/sokal/index.html

Is this juicey or what?!?!?!

okay, back to Foucault and Feminism.

sb


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