Sokal Hoax

Alan Sokal's exposure of the FashionableNonsense of (some) PostModernists by having a spoof essay, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", published in Social Text in 1996.

His hoax was so notorious that a book (ISBN 0803279957 ) was written about its ramifications - see http://bookshelved.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TheSokalHoax.

Alan Sokal is Professor of Physics at New York University.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair