"Indeed, in 1998, after the physicist Alan Sokal mocked humanists for delving into physics to support their ideas in a way that seemed ignorant at best and zany at worst – in what has come to be known as “Sokal’s hoax” – historian Mara Beller published an article in Physics Today entitled “The Sokal hoax: at whom are we laughing?”. She cited remarks by Bohr – but also by Heisenberg and Pauli – to make the point that in this respect physicists could sometimes be as zany as humanists, and there is no neat way to distinguish between the two."
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Robert P. Crease, "Critical Point Fruitloopery", Physics World (February 2012)
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Mara Beller
Mara Beller (born Mara Baruch; August 14, 1945 – October 30, 2004) was a Russian-born Jewish-American historian of science.
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