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=== Sokal affair ===
=== Sokal affair ===
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
 
* Professor of Physics Alan Sokal published a paper purporting to take seriously the idea that the laws of physics are social constructs
** he was satirizing similar theories in the social sciences, especially postmodern studies
* his paper: [https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (nyu.edu)]
* see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair


== Thomas C. Foster==  
== Thomas C. Foster==