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
Sokal in 2011
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
Sokal affair
…Appeal to ridicule – Type of logical fallacy Bogdanov affair – 2002 French academic dispute, sometimes referred to as a reverse Sokal hoax Chip Morningstar – American software developer and author, a software…
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).