SOKALOVA ”PSINA”. NOVA METODA ZNANSTVENE PRIJEVARE I NJEZINA RELEVANCIJA ZA SOCIOLOGIJU ZNANOSTI I KULTURE
SOKAL’S TRICK. THE NEW METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC DECEPTION AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: In the spring double issue of the journal Social Text (1996), professor Alan Sokal, a physicist from New York University, published an article entitled Crossing the Borders: Towards A Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravitation. Immediately after its publication in the journal Lingua Franca, the author Alan Sokal announced that his article Crossing the Borders...is a scientific fraud. The aim of Sokal’s deception was to show the scientific incompetency of the journal’s editorial board, i.e. of a large group of scientists in the fields of cultural and social sciences, or even of the sciences themselves.

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