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The 1996 Sokal hoax was "a demonstrative scholarly hoax to investigate whether a leading North American journal of cultural studies would publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if it sounded good, and flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions". How did this hoax impact academia?

by /u/Obversa in /r/AskHistorians

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