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A climate scientist criticized his own study. Is he a hero or a villain?

Grist 01 Oct 2024
An article about the Sokal affair appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 18, 1996 ... studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, who teaches the Sokal affair in his classes.
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‘Trust the science’? How the influence of money and AI has killed scientific integrity

Life Site 03 Jul 2024
Remember the “Sokal affair”? ... Sokal recounts. ... Remember the “Grievance studies affair”? In that Sokal-like hoax, which took place over 2017 and 2018, three separate authors – Peter Boghossian, James A.
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The Times view on scientific journals and editorial bias: Climate Changes

The Times/The Sunday Times 08 Sep 2023
The Sokal Affair, as it became known, was designed to expose the lax standards in the less rigorous publications, where research passed muster so long as it “flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions”.Sponsored.
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Understanding the Marxist Underpinnings of Education

The Epoch Times 13 Jul 2023
... the group behind the Grievance Studies Affair, or Sokal Squared Hoax, which managed to publish a number of fake papers in critical-theory-based journals.
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[Premiering 7:30PM ET] James Lindsay: The Marxist Underpinnings of Modern Education and the ‘Unraveling of Civilization’

The Epoch Times 30 May 2023
... Studies Affair” or “Sokal-squared Hoax,” in which they managed to get a number of fake papers published in critical-theory-based journals.
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What’s behind a successful academic hoax?

New Statesman 25 Aug 2022
The article’s author, Alan Sokal, was a physicist with no expertise in the journal’s field ... Yet scholarly hoaxes targeting journals in the humanities, from the “Sokal Affair” to the more recent “Grievance Studies Affair,” have become common place.
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