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Re:Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins by scott_s on Sunday June 07, 2009 @12:23PM (#646010)
And if you submit a paper generated from that to a top CS conference or journal, it will get rejected.
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Re:Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins by xtho on Sunday June 07, 2009 @02:40PM (#646161)
Maybe, but it was sufficient to get the developers to a conference.
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Re:Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins by scott_s on Sunday June 07, 2009 @05:19PM (#646378)
Read the motivation behind it more carefully. It got accepted to a scam conference. These are conferences that accept all papers, and exist to generate a profit for the conference organizers. Nobody takes the scholarship of those conferences seriously.

The entire point of the exercise was similar to the stunt Sokal pulled: to demonstrate the quality of the venue by submitting a paper that anyone competent in the field would recognize as garbage.

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