Science_in_Society / The_Science_Wars — Science

Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.

Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars

Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.

What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove

Article by Alan Sokal.

The Bogdanoff Affair

John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax.

VIDEA conference abstract hoax

Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995.

Science

The_Science_Wars resources