015 - Snake Science

This week we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sokal Affair by talking about academic hoaxes. What are they? What qualifies as a hoax? Will the Leather Archives be our next guest on the podcast? Find out! All hail the snake science. The “grievance studies” hoax does not reveal what its authors think. Editor response to Sokal http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html https://twitter.com/dwschieber/status/1047497301021798400 Opinion: I Published a Fake Paper in a 'Peer-Reviewed' Journal Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud (jacobbuckman.com) https://twitter.com/450Movement "Robo-snakes" by jurvetson is licensed under CC BY 2.0