Re:A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies (1996 hoax)
by michael_dorfman on Monday March 07, 2011 @12:32PM
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As Sokal, Bricmont and Dawkins and many others have pointed out many of these big names in the humanities were simply talking out of their a.
Actually, as often as not, it was Sokal, Bricmont, and Dawkins (and many others) who were talking out of their ass, egregiously and gratuitously misreading (or not reading at all) the "big names in the humanities" they were attacking.
For one particularly well documented instance, see: http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.197/plotnitsky....
If wikipedia is to be believed the journal switched to a peer review based process due to the Sokal affair.
> He wrote a crappy article for a crappy journal,
Clearly it's a crappy journal, but unfortunately it's associated with some big names like Duke [1] and Columbia [2].
> I do not find this incident particularly disturbing, and I don't think it says much about the humanities.
Maybe not Sokal's article, but certainly their books says a lot about the humanities. As Sokal, Bricmont and Dawkins and many others have pointed out many of these big names in the humanities were simply talking out of their a.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Text
[2] http://www.socialtextjournal.org/about/index.php#contact