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Re:A Sokal-style hoax on gender studies by tehabe on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:51AM (#14400021)
They published it in "Cogent Social Sciences" which is publishing everything if you pay them enough money. They have been hoaxed themselves.
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Re:A Sokal-style hoax on gender studies by hankewi on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:00AM (#14400057)
"...it’s held out as a high-quality open-access journal by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which is intended to be a reliable list of such journals."

I think that is one of the main points they wanted to stress.

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