[Dakmar]

That's great. It worries me that the line between satire and reality has become so blurred. Did you ever hear about the prof that set out to write a bunch of this high-falootin nonsense as a joke and was actually taken seriously by his fellow egg-heads? I'll see if I can find anything on that.

[IowaHawk]

His name was Alan Sokol, a physics professor at NYU. He pulled the greatest practical joke of all time - a deliberately bogus article satirizing Post-modernism that got published in "Social Text," the reigning journal of Deconstructionism.

[Dakmar]

"Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" , by Alan Sokal

[IowaHawk]

The long, strange, and hilariously true saga of Alan Sokal versus the Post Modernists