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I heard about this too. Basically it was all done to prove that NOBODY can
understand Derrida (:

Paul Janse wrote:
> There was also the recent case of the physicist Alan Sokal who wrote a
> completely nonsensical article which he submitted to the journal Social
> Science, which has a high scientific standing. The paper was accepted.
> Sokal's aim was to denounce the way physics and mathematics are used by
> (especially) French philosophers and sociologists to impress the readers.
> The editors of the journal an all the readers were evidently able and
> prepared to see some meaning which was never there.

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