[ale] This list is flooding with messages

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Thu Jan 27 09:46:22 EST 2005


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Joe Knapka wrote:

> tfreeman at intel.digichem.net writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I wish I could remember the physicist up around New York who did something 
> > similar to the supposedly liberal academic establishment ten years ago or 
> > so. Managed to get a paper past a journal editor, ?peer review?, which 
> > when properly read had zero content, just a monumental pile of buzz words, 
> > hot buttons, and devilish syntax. Also made more than a few people upset.
> 
> The paper was "Transgressing the boundaries: towards a transformative
> hermeneutics of quantum gravity". Alan Sokol was the primary author
> (possibly the only one, I don't remember).

Only author.

You can download the paper (and some other interesting stuff) from his web 
page. <http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/>

later,
chris



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