Alan Sokal is on this one, in case anyone still wants to bring up the Sokal affair as a legitimate objection to social science
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
forbetterscience.com
August 22, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Alan Sokal is on this one, in case anyone still wants to bring up the Sokal affair as a legitimate objection to social science
It's really a fantastic story. It won't get the traction the Sokal hoax did--mostly because it raises serious societal issues and the possibility (probability) of meaningful harm to people, where as the Sokal hoax allowed a particular set of people to feel very much superior to others.
April 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
It's really a fantastic story. It won't get the traction the Sokal hoax did--mostly because it raises serious societal issues and the possibility (probability) of meaningful harm to people, where as the Sokal hoax allowed a particular set of people to feel very much superior to others.
"centre for heterodox social science" sounds like something i 'd make up to do a sokal hoax
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"centre for heterodox social science" sounds like something i 'd make up to do a sokal hoax
thinking about the sokal affair (one hoax paper accepted by one journal; humanities destroyed forever) in the context of 2013's 'who's afraid of peer review?' (hoax biology paper accepted by 157 science journals; biology somehow not destroyed forever)
May 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
thinking about the sokal affair (one hoax paper accepted by one journal; humanities destroyed forever) in the context of 2013's 'who's afraid of peer review?' (hoax biology paper accepted by 157 science journals; biology somehow not destroyed forever)
maria corina machado really is the sokal affair of the nobel peace prize
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
maria corina machado really is the sokal affair of the nobel peace prize
All politics is Sokal.
I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.
May 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
All politics is Sokal.
The Sokal affair feels so gentle these days
A researcher invented a disease called “bixonimania” and wrote clearly bogus articles on Medium and arXiv about it, referencing Starfleet Academy, Sideshow Bob, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Within months, major AI apps were diagnosing users with bixonimania.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
www.nature.com
April 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The Sokal affair feels so gentle these days
There's something magical about how very-online quantitative social scientists are letting AI Sokal Hoax their discipline.
March 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
There's something magical about how very-online quantitative social scientists are letting AI Sokal Hoax their discipline.
we are not doing the fucking Sokal Hoax/Science Wars Again But With LLMs This Time. i fucking refuse.
March 3, 2026 at 1:13 AM
we are not doing the fucking Sokal Hoax/Science Wars Again But With LLMs This Time. i fucking refuse.
January 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Peter Singer, Steven Pinker, Alan Sokal, Robin Dunbar...
In some ways quite helpful that the racist academics are signing the "I Am A Racist Academic" pledge.
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
August 23, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Peter Singer, Steven Pinker, Alan Sokal, Robin Dunbar...
A heavy loss for the Sokal community and all of Ukraine - the Defender, a resident of the village of Komariv, Senior Lieutenant Igor Romanovych Tsybulya, 31, died.🙏💔🇺🇦
Graduate of the Sokal Gymnasium named after O. Romaniv and Lutsk National Technical University.
Eternal memory!🙏🇺🇦💔❤️
Graduate of the Sokal Gymnasium named after O. Romaniv and Lutsk National Technical University.
Eternal memory!🙏🇺🇦💔❤️
May 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
A heavy loss for the Sokal community and all of Ukraine - the Defender, a resident of the village of Komariv, Senior Lieutenant Igor Romanovych Tsybulya, 31, died.🙏💔🇺🇦
Graduate of the Sokal Gymnasium named after O. Romaniv and Lutsk National Technical University.
Eternal memory!🙏🇺🇦💔❤️
Graduate of the Sokal Gymnasium named after O. Romaniv and Lutsk National Technical University.
Eternal memory!🙏🇺🇦💔❤️
Today I spoke to someone with a humanities PhD who had never heard of the Sokal Hoax. Nature is healing.
September 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Today I spoke to someone with a humanities PhD who had never heard of the Sokal Hoax. Nature is healing.
In retrospect, the ‘Sokal hoax’ was, via the fact that Social Text editors were like ‘uh this article sucks ass and also we have no idea what you’re saying but we’ll throw you a bone because we want to bridge this C.P. Snowian cultural divide’ was itself a hoax on everybody that agreed with Sokal
November 15, 2024 at 9:41 AM
In retrospect, the ‘Sokal hoax’ was, via the fact that Social Text editors were like ‘uh this article sucks ass and also we have no idea what you’re saying but we’ll throw you a bone because we want to bridge this C.P. Snowian cultural divide’ was itself a hoax on everybody that agreed with Sokal
Mi crítica, resumida al máximo, de la conferencia de Sokal de ayer (hasta donde la aguanté, claro)
En el blog (550 palabras que me da pereza "hilar")
joaquinsevilla.blogspot.com/2025/04/lo-q...
En el blog (550 palabras que me da pereza "hilar")
joaquinsevilla.blogspot.com/2025/04/lo-q...
Lo que dicen que dice la ciencia
Ayer dio una conferencia Alan Sokal en la Fundación Areces, coorganizada por la RSEF. Siendo Sokal un personaje mítico y el tema de las inj...
joaquinsevilla.blogspot.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Mi crítica, resumida al máximo, de la conferencia de Sokal de ayer (hasta donde la aguanté, claro)
En el blog (550 palabras que me da pereza "hilar")
joaquinsevilla.blogspot.com/2025/04/lo-q...
En el blog (550 palabras que me da pereza "hilar")
joaquinsevilla.blogspot.com/2025/04/lo-q...
Increasingly convinced that EMILIA PEREZ must be deliberately designed as some kind of Sokal hoax aimed squarely at the governing film awards bodies. If so: well played!
January 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Increasingly convinced that EMILIA PEREZ must be deliberately designed as some kind of Sokal hoax aimed squarely at the governing film awards bodies. If so: well played!
This is exactly the world “radical centrists” have been gunning for since Sokal Squared. It’s the real “grievance studies,” as I observed at the time.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is exactly the world “radical centrists” have been gunning for since Sokal Squared. It’s the real “grievance studies,” as I observed at the time.
Science journals are now publishing nonsense GenAI images. The self-Sokal.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
February 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Science journals are now publishing nonsense GenAI images. The self-Sokal.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Pictured: me writing my book on the discursive context of the Sokal hoax
December 26, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Pictured: me writing my book on the discursive context of the Sokal hoax
My chat with @rechelon.bsky.social is now on the public feed! We talked about all sorts of stuff, from Sokal & Peterson to Postmodernism, the IDW & more! open.spotify.com/episode/4yhx...
Fashademics 3 - Postmodernism, Sokal & The Science Wars
open.spotify.com
April 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
My chat with @rechelon.bsky.social is now on the public feed! We talked about all sorts of stuff, from Sokal & Peterson to Postmodernism, the IDW & more! open.spotify.com/episode/4yhx...
i should mention i'm thinking about this in the context of reading a book by a bunch of regressive 'cancelled' scientists who line up to praise sokal for apparently making some sort of amazing point about postmodernism or such, but none think to ask "did anyone ever do this to us?"
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i should mention i'm thinking about this in the context of reading a book by a bunch of regressive 'cancelled' scientists who line up to praise sokal for apparently making some sort of amazing point about postmodernism or such, but none think to ask "did anyone ever do this to us?"
Also Biggs, Phoenix, Sokal in the 1st 100, along with Joyce.
Scratch a GC…
Scratch a GC…
August 23, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Also Biggs, Phoenix, Sokal in the 1st 100, along with Joyce.
Scratch a GC…
Scratch a GC…
Peter Singer, Stephen Pinker, Lawrence Krauss, Amy Wax, Jo Phoenix, Jerry Coyne,Frank Furedi, Alan Sokal. Absolute rogues gallery of all the worst people in/adjacent to academia.
the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!!
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
August 23, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Peter Singer, Stephen Pinker, Lawrence Krauss, Amy Wax, Jo Phoenix, Jerry Coyne,Frank Furedi, Alan Sokal. Absolute rogues gallery of all the worst people in/adjacent to academia.
Lots of expected trash on this list, including Pinker and Sokal. Very disappointed to see sociologist Michael Biggs (a social movements scholar) on here.
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
forbetterscience.com
August 23, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Lots of expected trash on this list, including Pinker and Sokal. Very disappointed to see sociologist Michael Biggs (a social movements scholar) on here.