Are Sokal Hoaxes Really Helping Reform Science?
Serious problems exist in today’s journals but the hoaxers seem so certain of their view that they don’t approach demonstrating it in a scientific way.
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Serious problems exist in today’s journals but the hoaxers seem so certain of their view that they don’t approach demonstrating it in a scientific way.
“Peer review does not protect against fraud,” the purported author wrote to <i>The Chronicle.</i> “It should protect against nonsense.”
Letters to the editor from the April 2021 issue of Scientific American
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