March 4, 1997 to April 17, 1997
R. Palmer--visitor 10,000, palmer@staff.uiuc.edu, visited
on Tuesday, March 04, 1997:
Message:
Don't you just love it!
[Urbana, Il, United States]
Web Page: http://
Derrick Sanders, sanderdj@uwec.edu, visited on Wednesday,
March 05, 1997:
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[Eau Claire, United States]
Web Page: http://
David Richter, dhrichter.cuny@cuny.campus.mci.net, visited
on Thursday, March 06, 1997:
Message:
I seem to be catching up very late on this one....
Thanks for having the data all here
[New York, United States]
Web Page: http://
Colin Straub, , visited on Friday, March 07, 1997:
Message:
This page sucks!
[Richmound, Canada]
Web Page: http://
Robert Parson, rparson@jila.colorado.edu, visited on Friday, March 07, 1997:
Message:
[Bouder, United States]
Web Page: http://jarrett.colorado.edu/
, bosse.holmqvist@ideh.su.se, visited on Sunday, March
09, 1997:
Message:
This is the GOOD NEWS - or bad, depending on which side you're on, I guess. But completely contrary to prof. Sokal's intention, his contribution to Social Text may in the future be regarded as the true beginning of the postmodern era! From now on no
one, literally noone, can be sure of what is the genuine article. Never again will it be possible to be 100% sure och trusting. There will always be an element of wariness, a memory of Sokal's achievement. Everything, absolutely everything ha become possi
sble to doubt. No article can ever be so fully peer reviewed or checked so as to rule out that it may be an hoax. - And, to be honest, how many of you out there are right now working on your own parodies, hoaxes or outright frauds? (Besides, already Peter
Medawar, surely the least of postmodernists, asked "Is the scientific paper a fraud?")
[stockholm, Sweden]
Web Page: http://
Michael LaMere, ml6040@cnsvax.albany.edu, visited on Monday,
March 10, 1997:
Message:
Jeez..it's only a joke
[Albany, United States]
Web Page: http://
Rosa Graham, naf@naf.org, visited on Tuesday, March 11, 1997:
Message:
[Washington D.C., United States]
Web Page: http://www.naf.org
paul pietsch, pietsch@indiana.edu, visited on Thursday, March 13, 1997:
Message:
Hi!
[bloomington, United States]
Web Page: http://www.indiana.edu/~pietsch/home.html
James A. Shoemaker, jashoemaker@juno.com, visited on Thursday,
March 13, 1997:
Message:
Excellent page
[, United States]
Web Page: http://
Mona Walsh Holland, , visited on Sunday, March 16, 1997:
Message:
74157,1047@compuserve.com
[, United States]
Web Page: http://
Mel Bartley, mel@public-health.ucl.ac.uk, visited on Monday,
March 17, 1997:
Message:
Fascinating reading, if only one had more time ...
[London, United Kingdom]
Web Page: http://
Maosung Lin, mslin@mail.ntit.edu.tw, visited on Monday,
March 17, 1997:
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[Taipei, Taiwan]
Web Page: http://
osame kinouchi, osame@landau.if.usp.br, visited on Friday,
March 21, 1997:
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[Sao Paulo, Brazil]
Web Page: http://
John Thompson, JohnCThompson@msn.com, visited on Sunday,
March 23, 1997:
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[Santa Cruz, CA, United States]
Web Page: http://
Phil Gasper, ptrg@sirius.com, visited on Sunday, March 23, 1997:
Message:
Thanks for an extremely useful resource.
[San Francisco, United States]
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Bernard PIRET, s890083@student.ulg.ac.be, visited on Sunday, March 23, 1997:
Message:
Mr Sokal trapped a bunch of fools. So what ?
Fighting against scientific misconduct would be more useful.
[, Belgium]
Web Page: http://www.ulg.ac.be
keith dow, keith@siarc.com, visited on Monday, March 24,
1997:
Message:
Thanks for putting the material together. I was
looking for the Weinberg article on the issue.
Take care
Keith Dow
[, United States]
Web Page: http://
Pekk Elo, pekka.elo@oph.fi, visited on Tuesday, March 25,
1997:
Message:
looking foreward to have a Sokal cvolloquium
here in Finland
[, Finland]
Web Page: http://
Ronald I. Carr, RONALD.CARR@dal.ca, visited on Tuesday,
March 25, 1997:
Message:
WOW ! A group of faculty members here at Dalhousie University in Halifax are going to debate the "SOKAL HOAX" on Thursday March 27th. It should be interesting !
[Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada]
Web Page: http://
shawn sagenich, ssagenich@juno.com, visited on Wednesday, March 26, 1997:
Message:
hi to everyone i know
[hermitage, United States]
Web Page: http://mto.net
Lycée Yourcenar Erstein Alsace France, , visited on Wednesday,
March 26, 1997:
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[, France]
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Mark Halpern, mhalpern@scopus.com, visited on Friday, March
28, 1997:
Message:
In the July 29, 1996 issue of The New Republic, two letters on the Sokal hoax were printed that anyone interested in the affair might like to read. One of them was from Alan Sokal, the other from me. They deal in particular with the role of Roger
Kimball, editor of the New Criterion, in the affair. It might be desirable to include the letters themselves, or at least citations of them, in this Web site.
[oakland, CA, United States]
Web Page: http://
Basarab NICOLESCU, nicolesc@ipno.in2p3.fr, visited on Sunday,
March 30, 1997:
Message:
Congratulations for the very useful bibliographical presentation on the Sokal Affair.However,I think that it is needed that other countries than USA should be present on your page.After all,The Sokal Affair is not a Franco-American story but of inte
rest for any country;
Basarab NICOLESCU
[Paris,France, France]
Web Page: http://
Carlos Galles, cgalles@satlink.com, visited on Sunday,
March 30, 1997:
Message:
Excellent page.
[ROSARIO, Argentina]
Web Page: http://
Gregory Seebert, gseebert@chiaolink.dcmdc.dla.mil, visited
on Thursday, April 03, 1997:
Message:
Your page has made it more clear to me the depths
of anti-intellectual nihilism prevalent in "postmodern"
thought. I am shocked that American colleges'humanities
departments are providing safe haven to these idiots.
I now will devote all my energies to undermine these
pompous "ignoranti".
[Chicago, United States]
Web Page: http://
Luis Buatois, buagano@msmail.kgs.ukans.edu, visited on
Thursday, April 03, 1997:
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[Lawrence KS, United States]
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Robert Batts, rabatts@bellsouth.net, visited on Sunday,
April 06, 1997:
Message:
Over our heads!!
butnotforlong
[Pembroke Pines, FL, United States]
Web Page: http://
Donn Kushner, kushner@botany.utoronto.ca, visited on Sunday,
April 06, 1997:
Message:
I still haven't gone into the arguments in detail, but some of Prof. Sokal's work seems rather like shooting fish in a barrel.
[Toronto, Canada]
Web Page: http://
ian johnston, johnstoi@mala.bc.ca, visited on Monday, April
07, 1997:
Message:
Excellent page--I wish we had more like them on all sorts of issues. We will be using the material here as the basis for various student assignments. Undergraduates need to confront these issues, and what you provide here is a very fine resource (
also intrinsically fascinating). Thanks a lot.
[nanaimo, bc, Canada]
Web Page: http://
Jonah Goldstein, Goldstein@mala.bc.ca, visited on Tuesday,
April 08, 1997:
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[Nanaimo, B.C., Canada]
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Henri Andre, henri.andre@infoboard.be, visited on Wednesday,
April 09, 1997:
Message:
Thanks for the site
[Brussels, Belgium]
Web Page: http://
Bruce Williams, bruce@bruce.math.nd.edu, visited on Wednesday,
April 09, 1997:
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[South Bend, IN, United States]
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Merry Maisel, maisel@sdsc.edu, visited on Saturday, April 12, 1997:
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[, United States]
Web Page: http://www.sdsc.edu
Basarab NICOLESCU, nicolesc@ipno.in2p3.fr, visited on Saturday, April 12, 1997:
Message:
This interesting and useful site was included in oue selection of sites in the new created page of CIRET .
http://perso.club-internet.fr/nicol/ciret/
[, France]
Web Page: http://perso.club-internet.fr/nicol/ciret
Karyl Krug, karylkrug@earthlink.net, visited on Saturday,
April 12, 1997:
Message:
Since I have enjoyed Professor Fish's writings on occasion, I am disappointed in Fish's humorless response to Sokal's well-taken point: The folks in charge of the postmodern academic debate on meaning cannot themselves tell the differnce between a
significant contribution to the discussion and jabberwocky. Getting his parody published in a serious academic journal was the perfect way for Sokal to prove his point. I don't think satire necessarily equals fraud, as Fish so huffily insists, just beca
use those being satirized don't realize it. I've lived through graduate English seminars where students were rewarded for parroting jargon, when it was clear that the students didn't really know what the words they were using meant. I imagine there are
a lot of people who start faking it in graduate school and find that they can make a career out of it.
[Austin, Texas, United States]
Web Page: http://
mike lewin, lewin@pebbles.svl.trw.com, visited on Monday,
April 14, 1997:
Message:
You do us all a service
[San Francisco, United States]
Web Page: http://
Mark K. Gardner, contavt.the.commander@null.net, visited on Monday, April 14, 1997:
Message:
Just wanted to read Sokal's article.
[Charlestowm, United States]
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Walton, R.E., waltonre@selway.umt.edu, visited on Monday,
April 14, 1997:
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[Missoula, United States]
Web Page: http://
Andre BERTEN, berten@risp.ucl.ac.be, visited on Tuesday,
April 15, 1997:
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[Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium]
Web Page: http://
Markku Javanainen, markku.javanainen@helsinki.fi, visited on Thursday, April 17, 1997:
Message:
Hello Jason
Very important web site!
I would like propose you to include the URL of
the article by Meera Nanda
in Dissent in the URLs of the Sokal Affair.
The Science Wars in India
by Meera Nanda
Dissent, Winter 1997, volume 44, number 1
http://www.igc.apc.org/dissent/archive/winter97/nanda.html
Although Sokal is not mentioned in it
(but Andrew Ross is) I think it is
important contribution to the Sokal Affair.
Yours
Markku Javanainen
markku.javanainen@helsinki.fi
[Helsinki, Finland]
Web Page: http://www.helsinki.fi/~javanain
markku.javanainen, markku.javanainen@helsinki.fi, visited
on Thursday, April 17, 1997:
Message:
I (Markku Javanainen) wrote before:
> Although Sokal is not mentioned in
> article by Meera Nanda.
Sorry my error - Sokal and Social Text hoax
are mentioned in the article
by Nanda.
Markku Javanainen
[, Finland]
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Bryan Hilferty, cb1610@exmail.usma.edu, visited on Thursday,
April 17, 1997:
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[West Point, United States]
Web Page: http://
yo, yo, yo!, yo.yo.yo.edu, visited on Thursday, April 17, 1997:
Message:
In his debate with Mr. Sokal, Mr. Bérubé claims that the
"social construction" of his child's Downs Syndrome
determined the child's development. This eludes the question of the disease itself. Sorry, Mike: hard science may find a way some day to manipulate the child’s chromosomes, not your ENGLISH DEPT VOODOO. If hard science is simply another social constru
ction: well, some maps are better than others, and hard science is an infinitely better way of dealing with CERTAIN questions. I’m not talking about the religion of scientism. I’m talking about how science is an infinitely better way of getting at that
hazy domain called truth. Mike would like to think there are many paths to truth, none of them particularly efficacious, in a relativistic sense. That’s nonsense, Mike. Do you think if deaf power people somehow could produce deaf infants among themsel
ves because they ‘construct” them as the “Other” ready to challenge straightwhitemale constructions of what’s “healthy,” do you think they legally should be able to?
[Stalingrad, Russia]
Web Page: http://Marxist-StalinismistheopiumofAmericanEnglishdepts