Some of you probably know that apart from conventional (i.e. military) wars, there also exist Science Wars, fought in an Epistemological Battlefield.

During one of such wars the New York University Physicist Alan Sokal downed the Social Text journal by publishing a research paper in it and subsequently claiming that the paper was a parody. This avenue of approach assured him a perfect position to launch a frontal attack on the whole discipline of Social Studies. He joined forces with Belgian Physicist Jean Bricmont and together they wrote the book Fashionable Nonsense, which, according to The Guardian, have shown that “modern French Philosophy is a load of old tosh”.

Little Sokal & Bricmont new, that the philosophical views, expressed by them in Fashionable Nonsense, were identical to those of Lenin.

Epistemological Gulag