Stephen Black wrote:
> 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 (?),
>
> 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.
If it was this list, then Sokol's article must be the one referred to.
Sokol has a new book out which discusses the problem, and also includes the
original paper as well as Sokol's notes on how and why he wrote the paper.
See info below (taken from Amazon.com).
Paul Smith
Alverno College
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Fashionable Nonsense : Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
by Jean Bricmont, Alan D. Sokal
Hardcover - 272 pages (December 1998)
St Martins Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0312195451 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.08 x
8.58 x 5.80
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