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- Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars - Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.
- The Bogdanoff Affair - John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax.
- What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove - Article by Alan Sokal.
- Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" - Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
- The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? - Analysis of some of the statements of prominent physicists drawing analogies between physics concepts and societal and philosophical issues. Suggests that physicists don't entirely have their own house in order.
- Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity - Sokal's Social Text article
- VIDEA conference abstract hoax - Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995.
- Tobacco Science Wars - Article in Science reports the tobacco industry has been bullying scientists, according to researchers who lead the campaign against secondhand smoke.
- StrategyPage.com - The online magazine of the Art and Science of War and Intelligence. Covers current military technology, conflicts, and policy.
- The Strategy Page - The online magazine of the art and science of war and intelligence, covering current military technology, conflicts and policy.
Wikipedia Articles
- Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination - Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is a traveling exhibition created by the Museum of Science, Boston, featuring props and costumes used in the Star Wars films, but focusing primarily on the science behind George Lucas' science fiction-fantasy epic. Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination was developed by Boston's ...
- Science wars - The Science wars were a series of intellectual battles in the 1990s between "postmodernists" and "realists" (though neither party would likely use the terms to describe themselves) about the nature of scientific theories. In brief, the postmodernists questioned the objectivity of science and encompass a huge variety of critiques on ...
- Physics and Star Wars - The science fantasy interstellar epic Star Wars uses science and technology in its settings and storylines, although they are not considered "hard" science fiction. Star Wars concentrates mainly on the epic drama and not on the "technobabble.
- Clone Wars (Star Wars) - The Clone Wars (also known as the Clone War) are a series of fictional intragalactic battles in George Lucas's science fiction saga Star Wars. The conflict is first mentioned in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), but not featured until the second and third episodes of the six-part Star Wars film series: Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005).
- Hardware Wars - Hardware Wars (1977) is a short film spoof of the classic science fiction film Star Wars. The thirteen-minute film, which premiered in theatres only seven months after Star Wars, consisted of little more than inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original.