chaosmage comments on Open thread, 25-31 August 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: chaosmage 10 September 2014 08:37:41AM *  3 points [-]

Sokal is a physicist, and a publication like this would have been a major embarassment inside his field. So he had no choice not to disclose the hoax before anyone else (who maybe didn't get the joke) would have commented.