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Sokal Hoax The Sham That Shook The Academy The - L by Mateja Pavlic is a document available to read on EtoBox.
May 18, 1996, was not a slow news day. The front page of the New York Times featured the suicide of the highest-ranking officer in the navy, claims that Bob Dole resigned from the Senate under political siege, and a photograph of President Clinton signing a law against child molesters. And yet the editors of the Times also found room that day for a front-page item about an obscure NYU physics professor who had published an article in an academic journal. What made this a top story? Exactly this: the p
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- Mateja Pavlic
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- EN