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Re:What are some of the worst academic papers ever published? by codeulike on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:23AM (#19300167)
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity - Alan Sokal 1994, published in Social Text #46/47, pp. 217-252 (spring/summer 1996).

https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_si...

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Re:What are some of the worst academic papers ever published? by qazpot on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:33AM (#19300210)
Background for this artcile - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
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Re:What are some of the worst academic papers ever published? by muthdra on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:00AM (#19300865)
> ...rise of deconstructionist thought, which eventually led to a deconstructionist critique of science.[citation needed]

Just perfect.

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