Sites and articles relating to the Sokal affair, the book "Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science" by Gross and Levitt, and related arguments between scientists and post-modernists.
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  • Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair"
    Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
  • Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars
    Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.
  • What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove
    Article by Alan Sokal.
  • The Bogdanoff Affair
    John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax.
  • VIDEA conference abstract hoax
    Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995.
  • The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing?
    Analysis of some of the statements of prominent physicists drawing analogies between physics concepts and societal and philosophical issues. Suggests that physicists don't entirely have their own house in order.

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  • Science and Society
    URL : blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety
    Science and Society Blog ... Science and Society. The Latest Developments ... The major players, and their motives, of course, have changed since the Cold-War ...[2008/11/19]
  • MIT OpenCourseWare | Science, Technology, and Society | STS.436 Cold ...
    URL : ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/.../STS-436Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm
    This course examines the history and legacy of the Cold War on science, looking predominantly at examples in the United States. It begins by exploring scientists' ...[2008/06/24]
  • SCIENCE AND SOCIETY - Energy, Environment, Cancer Research, Nanotechnology
    URL : www.scienceandsociety.net
    In our SCIENCE AND SOCIETY interview, Mr. Card discusses the tremendous cross ... The War Against the Rull by A.E. Van Vogt. The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov ...[2008/11/21]
  • Science wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars
    The Science wars were a series of intellectual battles in the 1990s between " ... over the use of science in society (as with creation science, intelligent design ...[2008/11/10]
  • Science in Society
    URL : www.iaswww.com/apr/Science/Science_in_Society
    Science in Society "Science in Society" focuses on the interaction ... Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society@ The Science Wars. Scientific Illustration ...[2008/11/14]
  • War - Science & Tech - War - Science & Tech - Care2 News Network
    URL : www.care2.com/news/category/science/War
    In 2007, a cyberwar broke out when the People's Liberation Army launched a ... Science & Tech (tags: usa, world, war, terrorism, government, news, society, ...[2008/11/14]
  • MIT OpenCourseWare | Science, Technology, and Society | STS.436 Cold ...
    URL : ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/.../STS-436Spring2004/Readings/index.htm
    Physics between war and peace." In Science, Technology, and the Military. ... Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science. ...[2008/06/24]
  • History of Science Society | Links
    URL : hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter_Archives/Older/news_jan97.html
    ... of Science Society. The Society: The Poverty of Science Wars. by ... "science wars" and polarized antipathies that emerged in the wake of his success. ...[2008/07/28]
  • Science and Society Picture Library - Advanced Search
    URL : www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/search.asp
    Science & Technology. Medicine & Health. Society & Wars. Natural World. Trade & Industry ... Search only the Names field (Author, Painter, Inventor, etc. ...[2008/11/14]
  • Amazon.com: Science Wars: Andrew Ross: Books
    URL : www.amazon.com/Science-Wars-Andrew-Ross/dp/0822318717
    The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology (Contemporary ... authority in our society, the essays in Science Wars announce their own powerful ...[2008/11/06]
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