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		foldr on Oct 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of S... Then you are mistaken. The Sokal paper was published in a fairly obscure journal ("Social Text") where submissions were not even peer reviewed.

Yoric on Oct 3, 2018 [–]

Indeed, I just discovered that. My bad.

UncleMeat on Oct 3, 2018 | [–]

This is how this nonsense spreads. People hear this one example and assume that all of the humanities are bullshit without ever investigating further.

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