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SpaceBuddha | 2 years ago

"Later, after Sokal revealed the hoax in Lingua Franca, Social Text's editors wrote that they had requested editorial changes that Sokal refused to make, and had had concerns about the quality of the writing: 'We requested him (a) to excise a good deal of the philosophical speculation and (b) to excise most of his footnotes.' Still, despite calling Sokal a 'difficult, uncooperative author", and noting that such writers were 'well known to journal editors', based on Sokal's credentials Social Text published the article in the May 1996 Spring/Summer 'Science Wars' issue"

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noobermin|2 years ago

That even makes it worse, I somehow didn't know this part of it.