Dear Kev,
It came from a fascinating and long/heated twitter thread debating whether Portland State Uni should sack Prof Peter Boghossian or not:
Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled academic journals

Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled academic journals

The leading academics Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker have defended a hoaxer who sought to expose politically correct “nonsense” in social sciences. Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of...

Regards,
Ash

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 10:32, Kev Hopayian
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Dear Ash,
Would love to know what interested you in the paper.

Sokal and Bricmont wrote a defence of science which applies to EBP, free download
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244321472_Defense_of_a_Modest_Scientific_Realism
Sokal famously submitted a nonsensical manuscript dressed up in postmodernist language which was accepted by a postmodernist journal, can be viewed here
https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html
Kev

On 14 Jan 2019, at 06:44, Ash Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I would welcome comments on this 2006 paper, which I saw recently on Twitter:
Regards,
Ash

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