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By Kim on January 11, 2009
One of the ironies of the Windschuttle kerfuffle is that Alan Sokal has a new book out. Perhaps all those Sokal analogies will help his sales. At any rate, blogger and UPenn cultural studies prof Michael Bérubé has some very [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Science, Sociology | Tagged Alan Sokal, Beyond the Hoax: Science, cultural studies, epistemology, hoax, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, Michael Bérubé, Philosophy and Culture, postmodernism, Quadrant, relativism, science studies, sharon gould, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
Apparently it’s now the question on everyone’s lips – apropos of the Keith Windschuttle Quadrant hoax. “Sharon Gould” was the pseudonym used by a hoaxer who submitted an egregious article embodying “outrageous propositions” about GM research and splicing human genes [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Media, Politics, Science | Tagged Alan Sokal, Blogging, blogosphere, Crikey, Don Arthur, hoax, Jason Soon, Kath Wilson, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, margaret simons, Media, melaleuca, Quadrant, Science, sharon gould, skepticlawyer, Troppo
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2009
An enterprising hoaxer – claiming to be acting in the tradition of Ern Malley – has published a spurious article on a scientific topic in Quadrant with the aim of demonstrating that Keith Windschuttle would print “outrageous propositions” which accord [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Science | Tagged Alan Sokal, Crikey, Ern Malley, hoax, ideology, keith windschuttle, margaret simons, Media, Quadrant, research, Science, sharon gould |
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