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Sokal Affair
Original title: ソーカル事件
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Sokal imitated the style of postmodern thinkers to produce a “contentless paper” scattered with scientific terms and formulas, sent it to an academic journal specializing in postmodern thought, and it was accepted and published as it stood. Sokal then revealed that the paper was nonsense, denounced the specialists who published it without seeing through it, and argued that some postmodern thinkers likewise use mathematical and scientific terms nonsensically to give their work authority, just as in his pseudo-paper.
ソーカルはポストモダン思想家の文体をまねて科学用語と数式をちりばめた「無内容な論文」を作成し、これをポストモダン思想専門の学術誌に送ったところ、そのまま受理・掲載された。その後ソーカルは論文がでたらめな内容だったことを暴露し、それを見抜けず掲載した専門家を指弾するとともに、一部のポストモダン思想家が自分の疑似論文と同様に、数学・科学用語を権威付けとしてでたらめに使用していると主張した。
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