[Phys-L] Re: Random Conference Paper Generation

[David Bowman <David_Bowman@GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU>]

Regarding BC's query:

> 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?
>
> bc, trusting bad memory.

It was a hoax paper written by Alan Sokal at NYU and was published
by the journal _Social_Text_ in '96.  The paper was a nonsense spoof
on some of the extreme postmodernist nonsense extant in such venues.
The title of the paper is "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a
Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" and it can be found
at Sokal's web site:

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2
_singlefile.html

(reconnect the wrap)

David Bowman
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