[cgh]

> no, I'm not looking for a hoax, or a deliberate comment on the situation. I'm looking for something that drives home the point that a lot of academic papers that look legit are actually meaningless but, as far as we can tell, are sincere

The Sokal paper was a hoax so it doesn’t meet the criteria.

[terminalshort]

The fact that it got published means there is at least one whole journal full of that