To be fair to Sokal, he didn’t make such a huge fuss about it either; it was a small prank on his part, just having fun with people who were being silly. The problem is that the story resonates (“Sokal hoax” ~= “slays dragon of stupidity”) in ways that aren’t quite true.
To be fair to Sokal, he didn’t make such a huge fuss about it either; it was a small prank on his part, just having fun with people who were being silly. The problem is that the story resonates (“Sokal hoax” ~= “slays dragon of stupidity”) in ways that aren’t quite true.