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That's another point though. Lots of things can be 'wrong' without the people who conceive of them necessarily being frauds.
In the end, the principle behind that Sokal essay was no different from someone getting their five year old to do a piece of abstract expressionist painting or some improvised music in an attempt to fool an audience. It might well achieve this aim but does that necessarily render abstraction or improvisation wrong in themselves. The individuals responsible for passing that essay fit for publication are the ones that Sokal should've been attacking, not a discourse that has merely allowed them to exist.
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