> #AlanSokal laid siege to postmodern theory with a Trojan horse.. #Sokal wrote a deliberately preposterous academic paper called “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” He filled it with the then trendy jargon of “critical theory,” and submitted it to a prominent journal of cultural studies called Social Text.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/can-social-scientists-save-themselves-human-behavior-78858

#ChatGPT had the ground prepared for it by the #BullshitOfAmbition in #PublishOrPerish organizations?

> an influential 2005 paper in ,, positive psychology.. by #BarbaraFredrickson and #MarcialLosada.. had been cited some 350 times.. define[d] the.. ratio of positive to negative emotions necessary for human flourishing (2.9013 to one,..).. graduate student, #NickBrown, discovered that the equations in the paper derived from the highly unrelated field of fluid dynamics, and were.. meaningless as applied to psychology... Brown’s most outspoken champion, and co-author, was #AlanSokal.