Gabriel and Joe discuss the “Sokal Squared” hoax, in which ridiculous articles were submitted and often accepted in humanities journals. The hoax generated considerable debate on bias in academia and the quality of peer-reviewed publications.
A video produced by the authors of the papers, in which one author notifies his colleagues of an accepted paper:
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This week, The Annex meets Benjamin Shestakofsky, a doctoral student from UC Berkeley, and soon to be faculty member at the University of […]
We discuss whether social scientists do enough to communicate the limits of their knowledge in public debate.
