Truly a riot, and then sad at the same time.
A peer-review hoax along the lines of Alan Sokal's bogus "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," which was published in the peer-reviewed journal, the Social Text, in 1996.
Seen on Twitter:
THE CONCEPTUAL PENIS AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT: A SOKAL-STYLE HOAX ON GENDER STUDIEShttps://t.co/7HrFFslFET
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) May 19, 2017
OMG! An academic journal just fell for a big hoax. Published fake paper on "the conceptual penis." Hilarious https://t.co/yGIGas0ksz
— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) May 19, 2017
Shout out to @peterboghossian who did a Sokal style hoax on the academic farce called Gender Studies https://t.co/du4iA6wf3b
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) May 19, 2017
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