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Teaching Created 3/10/1998 Go to Brad DeLong's Home Page If you have not been following the Sokal affair --Alan Sokal's experiment to see if the editors of the journal Social Text could identify nonsense when it was submitted to them (with negative results: they could not identify deliberate nonsense)--you have missed the most delicious academic joke of the decade. And of all of the texts ...