Sokal

I have heard the name Sokal before, but I don't know who he is or the details of his history.

A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

This is not an Alan Sokal/Social Text-style hoax determined to parody Slate by tricking Slate into running the most absurdly Slateish piece — in which something is superficially clever but substantively hollow — of all time.

Is You Tweaking? | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Economists have a pernicious model fetish, but that's better than merely verbal rhetoric that creates rather pointless debates that can be engaged endlessly without effect (sociology, post-modernism, Sokal and Social Text).

Douglass North at Length, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Privacy concerns should outweigh such investigations; the government should not, for instance, get involved in monitoring intellectual disputes or academic pranks like the Sokal hoax (one could easily have arrested Sokal and seized all of his emails under the pretext that he had done something “dishonest”).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Draft Testimony on Reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act 2010

"I met Amy Sokal and Alex Khalaf, a couple whose lives I'd end up documenting," Lucidon said.

Erwin de Leon: Documenting DOMA's Injustice Erwin de Leon 2011

"I met Amy Sokal and Alex Khalaf, a couple whose lives I'd end up documenting," Lucidon said.

Erwin de Leon: Documenting DOMA's Injustice Erwin de Leon 2011

The “Talk Page” of the Wikipedia entry on the Sokal Affair.

hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » The “Talk Page” of the Wikipedia Entry on the Sokal Affair 2009

"I met Amy Sokal and Alex Khalaf, a couple whose lives I'd end up documenting," Lucidon said.

Erwin de Leon: Documenting DOMA's Injustice Erwin de Leon 2011

So Sokal invented what he calls a "floss dispenser with memory aid for flossing upper and lower teeth in separate sessions".

Improbable research: monkeys – masters of dental flossing 2010

(Thanks to G Jules Reynolds for bringing the Sokal dispenser to my attention.)

Improbable research: monkeys – masters of dental flossing 2010