On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sometime in the last year or so there was some discussion on this or my other
> listserv regarding someone who submitted an article full of jargon, saying
> little or nothing, to a prestigious journal like JAMA (?), that was actually
> accepted by the journal. The purpose of the submission, if I remember
> correctly, was to prove that sometimes garbage actually got published. I want
> to use the information in my AP psychology class.
>
> Does anyone remember and can anyone send me a copy of the article or a
> reference or location in archives so I can find it? TIA
>
I don't recall anything quite like that but there was a discussion of
the physicist Alan Sokol's successful publication of a deliberately
meaningless work in the postmodern journal Social Forces. It was an
amazing parody, and they were totally fooled.
You can find out more than you probably care to know about the parody
and the resulting controversy at:
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html
His paper was called:
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of
Quantum Gravity"
-Stephen
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