> #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?

> #Stapel confessed that he had made up many of his results... was led astray by “a quest for aesthetics, for beauty—instead of the truth,” and also by ambition. To actually run the experiment would have been to run the risk that a disordered environment has no effect on racial attitudes—a “null finding” that would mean he’d wasted his time, because journals aren’t usually interested in experiments that don’t prove something new.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/can-social-scientists-save-themselves-human-behavior-78858
#Sokal #ScienceScandal #Reproducibility

@ramyologist #AI gone #postmodern #sokal In a society of AI's, Homo sapiens will be ?

Quand #Sokal rencontre le #maire de #Champignac au #bureau: https://old.reddit.com/r/AntiTaff/comments/otcdn6/sokal_au_bureau/

Décès de Benoît #Sokal : une triste nouvelle qui fait disparaitre une partie de ma jeunesse #canardo

Nichts ist schwieriger, als in einer #Welt, die wir uns so zurechtgelegt haben, wie sie jetzt liegt, und die wir mit unseren eigenen #Maßnahmen tagtäglich aufrechterhalten, #Spielräume für #Variation(en) zu finden.

#Konstruktivismus ist nur die halbe #Wahrheit.

#LoF #Operation #Konstruktion

#DirkBaecker (7.3.1997) - Mit dem #Glauben an die #Realität konstruieren wir unsere Welt - Ein #Schlußwort zur #Debatte um Alan #Sokal(s) #Wissenschaftsschwindel

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ho29NGQD4Vb3CNyX8mVMBFjtYmbPxJyqel7iaM_Ix9Q/edit?usp=sharing