Famous hoaxes
Hoax
- noun: a deliberate deception, for humor or mal (bad) intent
- verb: to deceive deliberately
This page is a list of famous hoaxes
Academic hoaxes
General hoaxes
Historical hoaxes
Sokal Affair
- a hoax by Professor of Physics Alan Sokal
- Sokal published a paper purporting to take seriously the idea that the laws of physics are social constructs
- he objective was to satirize post-modernist theories in the social sciences
- link to his paper: Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (nyu.edu)
- see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair