Alan Sokal - A physicist who, in 1996, successfully published his infamous paper: Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity in a peer reviewed journal.





The problem? The paper was total gibberish (which he immediately revealed after the paper was published). It was published in a prestigious journal because (according to Dr. Sokal):

1. It contained the right buzzwords, and
2. It was flattering to the editors' "ideological preconceptions"
   

This is sometimes referred to as the Sokal Hoax or the Sokal Affair. Specific instances of these (and there are many) are referred to as Sokalisms. Persuasive arts types who have chosen to make their living promoting themselves as experts in various science and technology fields will often use the term Sokalist as a derogatory term, to refer to people who would dare to speak of Sokal's experiment as a consideration.

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Resources

• UNDERCOVER: Crowder Infiltrates “FAT STUDIES” Conference (2022-03-21)
  Steven Crowder (of louder with Crowder fame) takes a shot at fooling "the smartest people in the room" and succeeds brilliantly. Getting his "paper" accepted and being asked to present it. (this seem to be a 2022 report about a 2020 event)

• From dog rape to white men in chains: We fooled the biased academic left with fake studies
  From a study documented in Areo magazine, titled:
  • Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship.

• Academic Journal Runs Hoax Article About Conservatives’ Bathroom Habits
• Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Gender Studies Hoax Claiming Penises Cause Climate Change
• SCIGen Is an automatic spoof paper generator with some notable acceptances:
• Rob Thomas: Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy, 2005 accepted at the ACM's WMSCI
• Mathias Uslar's paper: was accepted to the IPSI-BG conference
• A Serbian Sokal? Authors spoof pub with Ron Jeremy and Michael Jackson references (2013.09.23)

• Gibberish Research Paper Quotes My Cousin Vinny, Tells The Reader (Repeatedly) The Paper Is A Fraud... Gets Accepted At Academic Conference (2013.12.30)
  
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• Alan Sokal revisited
• Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
  
  
  

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Articles:

• How 3 People Showed the Absurdity of Some Academic Research Journals
  

"For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words."
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