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- Alan D. Sokal – Transgressing the Boundaries (1995) https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html 11 comments
- Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html 2 comments
- A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies (1996 hoax) http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html 29 comments
- Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html 3 comments
- Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html 74 comments
- In honor of April Fools Day, here is Alan Sokal's famously accepted, peer-reviewed, hoax paper "Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html 5 comments science
- Beam me up. Physicists create tractor beam. http://physics.nyu.edu/grierlab/conveyor6c/ 6 comments science
- NYU physicist trolls the academic journal Social Text. Gets them to publish a fake paper that is utter nonsense. http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html? 3 comments science
- [PDF] Postmodernism and pseudo-science: antagonists or fellow travelers? http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/pseudoscience_rev.pdf 8 comments philosophy
- Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html 51 comments philosophy
- Postmodernism Disrobed by Richard Dawkins http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html 115 comments science
- Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content. The chances are that you would produce something like the following... http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html 171 comments philosophy
- Physicist stages experiment to assess intellectual quality of "cultural studies." Quality abysmal, hilarity ensues. http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html? 126 comments science
- Postmodernism Disrobed: Richard Dawkins http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html 11 comments culturalstudies
- NYU physicist Alan Sokal tricks top humanities journal to publish utter nonsense (satire of the nth order) http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html 3 comments reddit.com