Bogdanov affair
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The Bogdanov affair was a controversy in the early 2000s over the legitimacy of the PhD degrees in theoretical physics obtained at the University of Burgundy by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov
Igor Bogdanov (left) and Grichka Bogdanov (right) in 2016
A Foucault pendulum, "an icon of French science", illustrated in the magazine Le Petit Parisien (1902).
Sokal affair
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The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal sub
Bogdanov affair
…Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.research, titled "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?" Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize that field's…
Sokal in 2011