Alan Sokal

A literati roundup: “Puzzling Peer Reviews…”Serbian researchers troll academia…

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  Puzzling Peer Reviews As open-access journals search for a review process that preserves diversity and quality, a sting operation exploits the weaknesses of lax quality control. The Incredible Predictive Power of Tom Clancy’s Novels Before Tom Clancy became an international publishing phenomenon, he was just another insurance salesman, working out of Baltimore and dreaming … Read more

A literati roundup: Noam Chomsky to Postmoderns: Over-Inflated ?Polysyllabic Truisms?…

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Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated ?Polysyllabic Truisms? To the delight and satisfaction of hundreds of our readers, we recently featured an interview in which Noam Chomsky slams postmodernist intellectuals like Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan as ?charlatans? and posers. The turn against postmodernism has been long in coming, a backlash the political … Read more