Remember the case of Alan Sokal case who managed to publish a sort of fictional paper in a prestigious post modernist journal?
Here is a similar case in the form of a prank by a couple of computer science students: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/14/mit.prank.reut/index.html. Miguel
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James D.Dougan wrote:
Of course, this also opens the door for a conclusion similar to the Skinner/Chomsky "debate". History books commonly record that Skinner was so devastated by Chomsky's review that he was unable to respond.... This of course isn't what happened - Skinner rarely responded to his critics, and especially to a hack job like Chomsky's review. But that isn't how it shows up in the books.Oh, please. The issue has never been (in the mind of any reputable historian of the discipline) whether Skinner was personally "devastated" or not. It is whether Chomsky's review of Verbal Behavior effectively convinced the discipline that behaviorism's long-standing promissory note of being able to explain complex human behavior (such as language) was void. It did, and the cognitive movement began in earnest. "Hack" is in the eye of the beholder.
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