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What was the purpose of Alan Sokal's paper "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"?

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"To get people talking about who is qualified to write about science" Just did this questions on apex and it was correct. :-)

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The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, .... My goal isn't to defend science from the barbarian hordes of lit crit (we'll survive just fine, thank you), ... students read Sokal's paper and were told either that it was written by another student or that it was by a famous academic
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