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We've been focusing on the negative for too long. It's time I introduced you to my hero: Alan Sokal

Bad science Research This article is more than 23 years old The Sokal affair This article is more than 23 years old Ben Goldacre Wed 4 Jun 2003 21.21 EDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google Talk about bad science We've been focusing on the negative for too long: it's time I introduced you to my hero. Alan Sokal is an icon for bad science hunters the world over, the man who pulled off the greatest academic scam of our times, and gave post-modernist commentators on science the public slapping they've always deserved. A physics professor in New York, in the 1980s Sokal went to teach in Nicaragua

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