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Sokal bemoans the fact that he was unable to provide only a handful of the latter.
As Sokal himself states.Social Text is not a journal without merit. “In fact, I strongly recommend two recent issues ofSocial Text, dealing with the crisis of academic labor.” I subscribed to the journal for a year so that I could get a copy of the original Sokal article. I found an article on the ambiguous attitudes of feminists toward theVictoria’s Secret catalogue fascinating and George Levine’s essay in the Science Wars volume, “What is Science Studies for and Who Cares?” is a very good and thoughtful essay.
In a brief review I will not comment on all the essays.
Nevertheless, Sokal and Jean Bricmont authored a subsequent book,Fashionable Nonsense (1998), that exposed the rather silly views on science of such scholars as Irigaray and Lacan.
Any tautology would be unscientific.
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Franklin, A. Alan Sokal:Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture .Sci & Educ21, 441–445 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-011-9371-2
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