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Sites and articles relating to the Sokal affair, the book "Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science" by Gross and Levitt, and related arguments between scientists and post-modernists.

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Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation. www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html

Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics. math.bu.edu/people/nk/rr

What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove Article by Alan Sokal. www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/noretta.html