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4 Post author: jaime2000 25 August 2014 11:14AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 September 2014 05:14:41PM 0 points [-]

By the same argument, we only know it was intended to be a hoax because Sokal said so afterward....

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.