tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post652976328365247781..comments2024-01-04T07:21:18.243-05:00Comments on John In Carolina: Duke faculty hoax-believers are rewriting their historyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-31965307691285855862008-04-24T19:50:00.000-04:002008-04-24T19:50:00.000-04:00John -As I mentioned on KC's site last night, I fi...John -<BR/><BR/>As I mentioned on KC's site last night, I finally figured out from what KC reproduced, why Duke University Press is taking so long to publish Wahneema Lubiano's "scholarship." They have to get rid of all the mistakes. (Tongue in cheek.)<BR/><BR/>Jack in Silver SpringAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-89865927100157146732008-04-24T01:11:00.000-04:002008-04-24T01:11:00.000-04:00Why would anyone pay such large amounts of money t...Why would anyone pay such large amounts of money to send a student to Duke, where:<BR/>• Brodhead is president.<BR/>• Durham police are allowed to unfairly target Duke students.<BR/>• Durham (the city) is crime-ridden and dangerous.<BR/>• Durham police and a dishonest and corrupt prosecutor framed innocent lacrosse players.<BR/>• Many university professors are of questionable quality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-21506999768741996622008-04-23T21:21:00.000-04:002008-04-23T21:21:00.000-04:00This provides some idea of the quality of Social T...This provides some idea of the quality of Social Text. <BR/><BR/>"The Sokal affair (also Sokal's hoax) was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editorial staff and readership of the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text (published by Duke University). In 1996, Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, submitted a paper of nonsense camouflaged in jargon for publication in Social Text, as an experiment to see if a journal in that field would, in Sokal's words: "publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."[1]<BR/><BR/>The paper, titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"[2], was published in the Spring/Summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue of Social Text, which at that time had no peer review process, and so did not submit it for outside review. On the day of its publication, Sokal announced in another publication, Lingua Franca, that the article was a hoax, calling his paper "a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense", which was "structured around the silliest quotations I could find about mathematics and physics" made by postmodernist academics."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-6267224539507468922008-04-23T20:45:00.000-04:002008-04-23T20:45:00.000-04:00John, I think they prefer to stick to their own ve...John, I think they prefer to stick to their own version of the reality. It suits them better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13073631.post-21228613919382743212008-04-23T18:09:00.000-04:002008-04-23T18:09:00.000-04:00It's not really the blogs that cause them trouble....It's not really the blogs that cause them trouble. It's the truth that the blogs expose and document for all time that causes them justifiable concern. <BR/><BR/>Thank you, JiC, for your continued contribution to their despair.<BR/><BR/>It may not be the justice we seek but it is something. Actually, quite a big something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com