Re:Postmodernism disrobed by Richard Dawkins
by xtho on Sunday June 07, 2009 @02:40PM
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Maybe, but it was sufficient to get the developers to a conference.
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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.