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Sokal in 2011. In an interview on the U.S. radio program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals will publish anything as long as it has "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known leftist thinkers.
Schön's topic of research was condensed matter physics and nanotechnology. [3] He received his PhD from the University of Konstanz in 1997. During late 1997, he was hired by Bell Labs, where he worked on electronics in which conventional semiconducting elements (such as silicon) were replaced by crystalline organic (meaning carbon-based) materials.
Physics Essays is a quarterly journal supposedly [1] covering theoretical and experimental physics.It was established in 1988 and the editor-in-chief is Emilio Panarella.. The journal has a reputation for being a "free forum where extravagant views on physics (in particular, those involving parapsychology) are welcome". [1]
Through their series of hoax articles, James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose intended to expose issues in what they term as "grievance studies", a subcategory of academic areas where the three believe "a culture has developed in which only certain conclusions are allowed ... and put social grievances ahead of objective truth".
Igor Bogdanov (left) and Grichka Bogdanov (right) in 2016. The Bogdanov affair was an academic dispute over the legitimacy of the doctoral degrees obtained by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov [1] (usually spelled Bogdanoff in French language publications) and a series of theoretical physics papers written by them in order to obtain degrees.
“There’s a lot of hard maths in there I think they’d rather not do.”“Why would girls not want to do hardened maths any more than boys?” asks Clark.“Research generally, people, you ...
A new $25,000 giveaway by The Hershey Company is coming under scrutiny for possible violations of state and federal sweepstakes law. The contest is being promoted on packs of Reese's Peanut Butter...
Predatory conferences or predatory meetings are meetings set up to appear as legitimate scientific conferences but which are exploitative as they do not provide proper editorial control over presentations, the topics covered can diverge substantially from what has been advertised, and advertising can include claims of involvement of prominent academics who are, in fact, uninvolved.