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I think the Sokal report provided a necessary expose of academic fraudulance, but I have mixed feelings about its broader message: that the ideas of writers like Derrida, Barthes, etc (upon whom a number of quite substance-less academics have built careers upon) are, themselves, without substance. In the end, I thought Sokal just ended up promoting a kind of anti-intellectualism aimed at contemporary humanities in general and seemed based on a misunderstanding of what those key figures were actually trying to do in the first place.
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