The Latest Academic Journal 'Hoax' Isn't Quite What It Seems

Two decades after Alan Sokal shook up the academic world with a hoax article, a pair of academic writers revealed on Friday that they had pulled off a "Sokal-style hoax" on a peer-reviewed social science journal with an article titled "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct." Here's what's going on.

May 20, 2017 at 10:13AM
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