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[Phys-L] Re: Random Conference Paper Generation



Bernard Cleyet wrote:

Didn't a group of people write a nonsense socio. paper accepted by a
journal in the 90's? that made a splash when the hoax was revealed?

Yes, the MIT article references a 90's hoax by a physicist. Students who perpetrated the latest hoax claim ignorance of the 90's hoax before submitting their paper. To quote from the MIT article (see http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/14/mit.prank.reut/ )

"The prank recalled a 1996 hoax in which New York University physicist Alan Sokal succeeded in getting an entire paper with a mix of truths, falsehoods, non sequiturs and otherwise meaningless mumbo-jumbo published in the quarterly journal Social Text, published by Duke University Press."

Don Polvani
Northrop Grumman Corp (full time)
Anne Arundel Community College (part time)
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