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Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" - http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation. |
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What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove - http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/noretta.html
Article by Alan Sokal. |
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The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? - http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~bohmmech/BohmHome/sokalhoax.html
Analysis of some of the statements of prominent physicists drawing analogies between physics concepts and societal and philosophical issues. Suggests that physicists don't entirely have their own house in order. |
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VIDEA conference abstract hoax - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa-paper.html
Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995. |
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The Bogdanoff Affair - http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanoff/
John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax. |