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A few years ago there was the so-called Bogdanov Affair in physics, which some people claimed was a "reverse Sokal hoax" (i.e. publishing bogus physics that was so esoteric that no one could tell whether it was legitimate).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair




Yes. But fortunately (for the phyisicists) the Bogdanov brothers were not postmodernist pranksters.




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