"The results of my little experiment [Sokal affair] demonstrate, at the very least, that some fashionable sectors of the American academic Left have been getting intellectually lazy. The editors of Social Text liked my article because they liked its conclusion: that "the content and methodology of postmodern science provide powerful intellectual support for the progressive political project" [sec. 6]. They apparently felt no need to analyze the quality of the evidence, the cogency of the arguments, or even the relevance of the arguments to the purported conclusion."
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Alan Sokal
Alan David Sokal (born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at and professor of physics at . He works in and combinatorics. He is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by 's '. He also works to counter faulty scientific reasoning, as seen with his involvement in criticising the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.
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