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Jason
Walsh, jwalsh@u.washington.edu, visited on Thursday,
March 12, 1998:
Message:
[Seattle, United States]
Web Page: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jwalsh/
Dr. Wm. E. Hunt, wmhunt@aol.com, visited on Tuesday,
March 17, 1998:
Message: Naiveté is not innocent. Gambatte!
[Columbus OH, United States]
Web Page: none
vernon and yvonne henderson, henderson@globalbiz.net,
visited on Saturday, March 21, 1998:
Message: dittoes, rush, we've been fans since 1987 and are
still listening. p.s. do you still need a gardener for the
estate?
[washington twp, mi, United States]
Web Page: none
Bryce Eller, bryce.eller@West.Sun.COM, visited on
Sunday, March 29, 1998:
Message:
[Los Angeles, United States]
Web Page: none
Don Evans, don.evans@mci2000.com, visited on Friday,
April 03, 1998:
Message: Thanks for this useful site. I am glad to see both
sides of this issue displayed for public assessment. Keep up
the good work!
[Randallstown, MD, United States]
Web Page: none
Jason Urichuk, uric4122@acmail.mtroyal.ab.ca, visited
on Wednesday, April 22, 1998:
Message: The good Dr. Sokal did, as far as I'm concerned,
something that needed doing. I have been forced to take a class
involving a good deal of cultural studies rubbish. The textbook
is riddled with the sort of deliberately confusing, imprecise,
pompous, and obfuscating drivel that Sokal deals with. Thank
God for Dr. Sokal (who was kind enough to return the
congratulatory email I sent him). The sooner the inane language
of cultural studies fades into oblivion, the better!!
[Calgary, Canada]
Web Page: none
Cris Lucianu,
CL.AMP@pop.agri.ch, visited on Thursday, April 23, 1998:
Message:
[Bern, Switzerland]
Web Page: http://www.archaeo.unibas.ch
Joseph H. McCauley, JOEMAC53@aol.com, visited on
Thursday, April 23, 1998:
Message:
[East Falmouth, United States]
Web Page: none
JP Belisle, snare@comnet.ca, visited on Sunday, May 03,
1998:
Message: Thanks for keeping the site up
[Ottawa, Canada]
Web Page: none
João Marcelo Ehlert Maia ,
jmehlert@domain.com.br, visited on Thursday, May 07, 1998:
Message: I'm a sociology student and i would like to say is
that Sokal is right and wrong at the same time. We do have a
lot of junk hidden in the postmodern aproach, and a organized
attack against the ideals of Enlightnement, attack promoted by
the politic ally correct ( P.C's ) warriors. On the other hand,
we're still facing a lot of positivism thought in science, and
we see the faith in science replacing the faith in God as an
infallible institution.
[Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]
Web Page: none
igor kopytoff, kopytoff@sas.upenn.edu, visited on
Monday, May 11, 1998:
Message:
[philadelphia, PA, United States]
Web Page: none
kevin prufer, kdp8106@cmsu2.cmsu.edu, visited on
Friday, May 15, 1998:
Message: Great page.
[warrensburg, MO, United States]
Web Page: none
james mabbott, jamesmabbott@hotmail.com, visited on
Tuesday, May 26, 1998:
Message: It is interesting to note that an event such as the
Sokal Affair has failed to regiter at all in Australia until
quite recently. As of July this year there shall be a combined
conference in Sydney on Sokal and Nietzsche entitled truth and
lies. Perh aps it might be of interest to any one contacting
this website?
[Canberra, Australia]
Web Page: none
Christopher Bolton, , visited on Thursday, May 28, 1998:
Message: Very useful site. Thank you. I think there may be a
BROKEN LINK: I couldn't get the NPR interview at the RealAudio
URL site you are linked to, but I did find it at
http://www.npr.org/ramarchives/nc6M1501-7.ram
[Stanford, CA, United States]
Web Page: none
Danilo Donolo, donolo@hum.unrc.edu.ar, visited on
Friday, May 29, 1998:
Message: Mario Bunge entiende que él y un colega se
propucieron hacer algo semenjante y no lograron. Por esa
razón considera de primer orden, el artículo
Transgressing the Boundaries. Yo adhiero a esa
observación y haré mención del hecho y de
las ciercunstancias a mis alumnos de la Universidad Nacional de
Río Cuarto. El comentario a los alumnos se encuadra
perfectamente en la unidad de estudio dedicada a la etica en el
trabajo Danilo Donolo
[Río Cuarto, Argentina]
Web Page: none
Asatar Bair, asatar@econs.umass.edu, visited on
Saturday, June 06, 1998:
Message:
[Northampton, United States]
Web Page: none
Brian Collier, b.collier@bilk.ac.uk, visited on Monday,
June 08, 1998:
Message: Great! This is a historian/sociologist speaking:
relativise the relativists!
[Bradford, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Tom Clark, thomas.e.clark@dartmouth.edu, visited on
Wednesday, June 17, 1998:
Message: I appreciate your efforts to compile this material.
It was a great help to me. I am a graduate student in
mathematics and my sympathies generally lie with Sokal, but I
would love to discuss the issue with others, especially people
in other diciplines and people with opinions different then my
own. There is an opportunity to learn h ere if we can talk to
each other sensibly. Let's not let this turn into an exchange
of personal attacks that teach nothing.
[Hanover, NH, United States]
Web Page: none
Patricia Hanlon, walkercreek@juno.com, visited on
Saturday, June 20, 1998:
Message: thanks for this site!
[Essex MA, United States]
Web Page: none
Patricia Hanlon, walkercreek@juno.com, visited on
Saturday, June 20, 1998:
Message: thanks for this site!
[Essex MA, United States]
Web Page: none
Jan Woloniecki, jww@ibl.bm, visited on Saturday, June
20, 1998:
Message: Splendidly entertaining - Thank you for the site and
congratulations to Professor Sokal on his wonderful enterprise.
[Hamilton, Bermuda]
Web Page: none
C. K. Raju, c_k_raju@hotmail.com, visited on Sunday,
June 28, 1998:
Message: This site is very good for peoplelike me, from the
third world, who cannot otherwise access journals like Social
Text.
[New Delhi, India]
Web Page: none
bill roper, bill.roper@uce.ac.uk, visited on Thursday,
July 02, 1998:
Message:
[Birmingham, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Peter Simcock, P.J.SIMCOCK@LIVJM.AC.UK, visited on
Monday, July 06, 1998:
Message: I came late to the "Social #Text" affair, but the
catching up has been great fun. It's good to see the worst of
these posturing, posing, punning... er, something else
derogatory beginning with P .... come up against someone with
the courage and intellect to tell them that they're being
rather silly. I am certainly no scientist, but even I could
wade through the (wonderfully constructed) verbiage of
"Transgressing the Boundaries..." and realise it was complete
c**p. Never let 'em rest, Prof Sokal!
[LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Richard W. Cutler, rwcmf@email.msn.com, visited on
Wednesday, July 08, 1998:
Message:
[, United States]
Web Page: none
Jo Deferme,
jo.deferme@student.kuleuven.ac.be, visited on Monday,
July 13, 1998:
Message:
[Leuven, Belgium]
Web Page: http://www.sesuadra.org/~interaxis
Christopher Mark,
cjm@math.umd.edu, visited on Tuesday, July 14, 1998:
Message: Great site. I was overseas when this whole thing
broke apparently, so I just learned of it. I've added a link to
it on my homepage, quoting your opening paragraph.
[Greenbelt, MD, United States]
Web Page: http://www.math.umd.edu/~cjm
ann gavriel / sonya perry, a.gavriel@rgu.ac.uk, visited
on Monday, July 20, 1998:
Message: Lyotard's hero, Ludwig Wittgenstein,the creator of
the 'language game' concept, said, very clearly: "Whatever can
be said, can be said clearly and simply. For the rest, we
should pass over it in silence". There are ways to talk sense
about cultural relativism.
[Aberdeen, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Betsy Tao, betsy.tao@yale.edu, visited on Wednesday,
July 22, 1998:
Message: Thank you; your site is both interesting and
informative. As a student of comparative literature, I've been
exposed to different fields of critical theory, many of them
strongly influenced by brilliant thinkers who do not write
succintly. Professor Sokal has a good point. In every field
there are scholars who do shoddy, pretentious work, and I have
often felt exasperated by writing that seemed to be
unnecessarily obscure. However, bad writing is not synonymous
with bad thinking. I do not agree with his method of critique,
for reasons similar to those of the editors of Social Text.
"The Sokal affair" has resulted in the easy dismissal (by some)
of whole fields of valuable and legitimate academic work, for
which a kind of vocabulary is often necessary. In other words,
Professor Sokal has "flattered the ideological preconceptions"
of many people who mock what they do not readily understand.
[Louisville, KY, United States]
Web Page: none
Roger Gill, roger.gill@ndirect.co.uk, visited on
Thursday, July 23, 1998:
Message: What a shame for you all that Impostures
Intellectuelles has yet to see the light of puublic acclaim on
you side of the pond I look forward to it keeping th pot
boiling a little longer.
[Malvern, United States]
Web Page: none
Gerhard Budin, gerhard.budin@univie.ac.at, visited on
Friday, July 31, 1998:
Message: fascinating!
[Vienna, Austria]
Web Page: none
Casimiro Cabrera-Abreu, casimiro@sk.sympatico.ca,
visited on Saturday, August 01, 1998:
Message:
[REgina, Canada]
Web Page: none
Sergio Uribe, suribe@yahoo.com, visited on Monday,
August 03, 1998:
Message: felicitaciones por el sitio, muy interesante.
encuentro increible poder seguir esta polemica donde participa
gente de todo el mundo, incluyendo algunos "peces gordos"
[Valparaiso, Chile]
Web Page: none
Czeslaw Mesjasz, 1. mesjaszc@ae.krakow.poland 2.
cmesjasz@copri.dk, visited on Sunday, August 09, 1998:
Message:
[, Poland]
Web Page: none
Tim Ingarfield, systemic@pnl.net, visited on Monday,
August 10, 1998:
Message:
[Madrid, Spain]
Web Page: none
Jorge L. Bueno Alonso, jlba@inves.es,
visited on Saturday, August 15, 1998:
Message: As a PhD candidate in the field of English Philology
and Literary Criticism I agree completely with Sokal's views.
There is too much stupidity and rubbish in contemporary
literary criticism and in the Humanities in general. We future
lecturers and young serious researchers in these literary
fields should be the first ones in congratulating Sokal's hoax
-and the ideas behind it-. The lit crit babblers with empty
discourses should be fought at for the serious researchers'
sake and for the future benefit of Humanism in general.
[Oviedo, Spain]
Web Page:
Manlio Tabellini, manlio.t@virgin.net, visited on
Wednesday, August 19, 1998:
Message: Well done. Excellent public exposure of the little
scoundrels. These pseudo intellectuals think they can
understand scientific arguments through superficial reading of
science popularization.
[Abingdon, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Ferren MacIntyre, ferren.macintyre@ucg.ie, visited on
Friday, August 21, 1998:
Message: Bravo. Bu don't be too hard on the poor sociologists.
Physics envy is an insidious ailment and affects one's
judgement in unexpected ways.
[Galway, Ireland]
Web Page: none
mike watkins, trin0162@trinity.ox.ac.uk, visited on
Wednesday, August 26, 1998:
Message: Sokal's hoax seemed to do some good, but it is a
pity, in his later articles, behaving with exactly the sort of
high-handed disregard for discussion or argument that he so
earnestly decries in his opponents. Plus ca change.
[oxford,, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Hugh Helm, hhelm@mail.colgate.edu, visited on Thursday,
August 27, 1998:
Message: Keep up the good work!
[Hamilton, United States]
Web Page: none
Val., vshv@usa.net, visited on Tuesday, September
01, 1998:
Message: I love Czech Republic! See
http://www.homepage.techno.ru/peek/index.htm Regards. Val.
[, Russia]
Web Page:
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/9335/start.htm
tim scott, tim@bamm.demon.co.uk, visited on Saturday,
September 05, 1998:
Message: Thanks for a great page.Having read the book and as
an ex mathematician struggling with pomo I worry that we might
lose the baby with the bathwater.Something is happening out
there - and the underpinnings of science aren't secure.I'd love
to hear Prof Sokal talking about the real implications of Godel
instead of just (rightly) pointing out the abuses.It seems to
me that the scientific community have not really taken on board
the enormity of Godel.(As I write this I wonder if you can ever
be an ex mathematician?I gues I'm just lapsed!)
[Mytholmroyd, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Richard H. McMonagle, rmcmonagle@tui.edu, visited on
Tuesday, September 08, 1998:
Message:
[Miami, FL, United States]
Web Page: none
Charles Pique,
tjefrson@chicom.com, visited on Thursday, September 10,
1998:
Message: I think even the article by Mara Beller in Physics
Today September 98 did not help to straighten the mounting
confusion out on this subject. In fact I have seen no one who
seems serious and straightforward enough to take a position
presentable to the public or educators. I may make a comment on
my web page someday at www.chicom/users/tjeff. Charles
[Grayslake by Chicago, United States]
Web Page: http://www.chicom.com/users/tjeff
seok-mo An, s-an@wiu.edu, visited on Monday, September
14, 1998:
Message:
[Macomb, IL61455, United States]
Web Page: none
Claude C.
Barnett, barncl@wwc.edu, visited on Monday,
September 14, 1998:
Message:
[College Place, United States]
Web Page: http://homepages.wwc.edu/staff/barncl/
John Chaput, jem.chaput@sk.sympatico.ca, visited on
Monday, September 21, 1998:
Message:
[Regina, Canada]
Web Page: none
Manfred Leiser, leiser@netkonnect.net, visited on
Friday, September 25, 1998:
Message:
[Silver Spring, MD, United States]
Web Page: none
Stephen MILLER, , visited on Sunday, September 27, 1998:
Message:
[, United States]
Web Page: none
Andrés A. Medina V., a-medina@altavista.net,
visited on Sunday, September 27, 1998:
Message:
[Bogotá, Colombia]
Web Page: none
David may, dcmay@is2.dal.ca, visited on Monday,
September 28, 1998:
Message:
[, Canada]
Web Page: none
Will Scarnell, hungryhorse50@hotmail.com, visited on
Thursday, October 01, 1998:
Message:
[London, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
Derek Bauer, derekcbauer@hotmail.com, visited on
Friday, October 02, 1998:
Message:
[Ottawa, Canada]
Web Page: none
Derek Bauer, derekcbauer@hotmail.com, visited on
Friday, October 02, 1998:
Message:
[Ottawa, Canada]
Web Page: none
Kati Munkacsy, munkac@ludens.elte.hu, visited on
Thursday, October 08, 1998:
Message: I`am very interesting in proof, in teaching of
proofs. I think, the proofs are more importants in our life as
the numbers. Thank you, Kati
[Budapest, Hungary]
Web Page: none
Nathan Holland, nateholland@hotmail.com, visited on
Monday, October 12, 1998:
Message: Hey, I'm here because I am writing a paper about
Sokal's hoax for my physics 105 course at Occidental College.
[Los Angeles, United States]
Web Page: none
Ralph A. Brandt, ragtime@imap1.asu.edu, visited on
Friday, October 16, 1998:
Message: Sokal! Good!
[, United States]
Web Page: none
Juha Rajala, , visited on Monday, October 19, 1998:
Message:
[Tampere, Finland]
Web Page: none
Huajie Liu,
liu8@uiuc.edu, visited on Tuesday, October 20, 1998:
Message:
[Champaign, United States]
Web Page: http://members.tripod.com/~huajie
Rainer Brömer [Broemer],
Rainer.Broemer@psk.uni-regensburg.de, visited on Wednesday,
October 21, 1998:
Message: Extremely valuable documentation, especially for
those from outside the US who do not have access to many of the
periodical publications quoted
[Regensburg, Germany]
Web Page:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_I/Philosophie/Wissenschaftsgeschichte/index.html
Kevin Phelan, kevin.phelan@lrz.uni-muenchen.de, visited
on Monday, October 26, 1998:
Message: Murphy! Murphy! oooeeeaaaa, bloop bloop!
[Munich, Germany]
Web Page: none
J J Turner, james.turner@nottingham.ac.uk, visited on
Monday, October 26, 1998:
Message:
[Nottingham, United Kingdom]
Web Page: none
p. louwen, p.louwen@student.utwente.nl, visited on
Thursday, October 29, 1998:
Message:
[enschede, Netherlands]
Web Page: none
Rishy Bukoree, erb8911@umoncton.ca, visited on Monday,
November 02, 1998:
Message: Sokal has my support. I've had to endure the
nonsensical readings of Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, Irigaraye,
Cixous, and co, for my Literary Studies. I found 99 per cent of
these stuffs completely inintelligible. Those French 'faux
philosophes' have corrupted modern thougth with their
'pédanterie', superficial nonsensical language of
erudition. People who pretend understanding these silly authors
are just pretentious themselves, like some of my Lecturers,
teachers or even some students, just to be seen as
'intelligent', trendy, and with a sense of self-importance.
Lacan, Derrida and co, have wasted time, ink, papers, etc, but
moreover, they have made young scholars think that they knew
what they were talking about. In fact, they did this just to
gain recognition and they'll surely go to Hell.
[Moncton, N-B, Canada]
Web Page: none
Rishy Bukoree, erb8911@umoncton.ca, visited on Monday,
November 02, 1998:
Message: Sokal has my support. I've had to endure the
nonsensical readings of Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, Irigaraye,
Cixous, and co, for my Literary Studies. I found 99 per cent of
these stuffs completely inintelligible. Those French 'faux
philosophes' have corrupted modern thougth with their
'pédanterie', superficial nonsensical language of
erudition. People who pretend understanding these silly authors
are just pretentious themselves, like some of my Lecturers,
teachers or even some students, just to be seen as
'intelligent', trendy, and with a sense of self-importance.
Lacan, Derrida and co, have wasted time, ink, papers, etc, but
moreover, they have made young scholars think that they knew
what they were talking about. In fact, they did this just to
gain recognition and they'll surely go to Hell.
[Moncton, N-B, Canada]
Web Page: none
Gerald J. Butler, butler1@mail.sdsu.edu, visited on
Wednesday, November 04, 1998:
Message: Sokal's Hoax is of extreme importance. We must never
let the matter drop.
[San Diego, CA, United States]
Web Page: none
VIRGIL DEMERY, VDEMERY@WORLDNET.ATT.NET, visited on
Saturday, November 14, 1998:
Message:
[ST. CROIX, US, Virgin Islands]
Web Page: none
George T. Axiotakis, g_hog@troll.soc.qc.edu, visited on
Thursday, November 19, 1998:
Message: Go Alan Go! The left will never be served by studying
mystification with mystification--or by the suggestion that
empiricism is hegemonic. It comes down to this kids; the
oppressed (or marginalized, or "subaltern") are not mystified
by studying science--they are liberated by it. Let's wake up
and cut the crap.
[New York, United States]
Web Page: none
George T. Axiotakis, g_hog@troll.soc.qc.edu, visited on
Thursday, November 19, 1998:
Message: Go Alan Go! The left will never be served by studying
mystification with mystification--or by the suggestion that
empiricism is hegemonic. It comes down to this kids; the
oppressed (or marginalized, or "subaltern") are not mystified
by studying science--they are liberated by it. Let's wake up
and cut the crap.
[New York, United States]
Web Page: none
r yanul, fbad@mailcity.com, visited on Sunday, November
22, 1998:
Message:
[washington dc, United States]
Web Page: none
Ralph A. Brandt, ragtime@imap1.asu.edu, visited on
Thursday, November 26, 1998:
Message: You should cite the writings of Sir Issac Newton and
Tip O'Neil to justify a thesis statement that all gravitation
is local.
[Phoenix, AZ, United States]
Web Page: none
Erik
Dop, rup97ed@Sheffield.ac.uk, visited on Saturday,
November 28, 1998:
Message:
[Sheffield, United Kingdom]
Web Page:
http://hippo.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh
Daniel Alexandrov, dalexand@da1581.spb.edu, visited on
Saturday, November 28, 1998:
Message: Thanks for the site!
[St. Petersburg, Russia]
Web Page: none
Henry C.K. Liu, hliy@mindspring.com, visited on Sunday,
November 29, 1998:
Message:
[NY, United States]
Web Page: none
Georgi Angelov, gangelov@bgnet.bg, visited on Friday,
December 04, 1998:
Message:
[Sofia, Bulgaria]
Web Page: none
MAR CELO ETCHEGOYEN, metchegoyen@arnet.com.ar, visited
on Monday, December 07, 1998:
Message: The social sciences is in need of more
"Sokal´s"
[Buenos Aires, Argentina]
Web Page: none
Bob
Strauss, strauss@wcu.edu, visited on Tuesday,
December 08, 1998:
Message: Good job! It's nice to find all the links and
articles in one place.
[Cullowhee, United States]
Web Page: http://www3.wcu.edu/~strauss/personal
gene abkarian, abkarian@cahs.colostate.edu, visited on
Tuesday, December 08, 1998:
Message:
[ft collins, co, United States]
Web Page: none
Marilyn Glenn, marilyn.glenn@sofkin.ca, visited on
Thursday, December 10, 1998:
Message:
[Ottawa, Canada]
Web Page: none
Jakub Dvorak, xdvorak@physics.muni.cz, visited on
Friday, December 11, 1998:
Message: Life is a joke!
[Brno, Czech Republic]
Web Page: none
Derek Bauer, derekcbauer@hotmail.com, visited on
Monday, December 21, 1998:
Message: Just finished Intellectual Imposters and it is a
breath of fresh air. Or should I say it redefines the
parameters of the postmodern hegemony in that the
authors/actors subsume the implicit arationality of the
Derridians etc...
[Ottawa, Canada]
Web Page: none
Paul McEwan, p-mcewan@nwu.edu, visited on Monday,
December 21, 1998:
Message: This is a great site. It's really interesting to see
people on both sides distort the fine distinctions of the issue
as debate progressed. Unfortunately, this affair has had
precious little impact in cultural studies. Many of my
classmates accept as a given that ALL scientific facts are
socially constructed. This allows them to accept only those
facts that support their argument and dismiss the rest. I'm
thinking about writing my thesis on this topic. I'll let you
know if I come across any interesting resources. Paul
[Chicago, United States]
Web Page: none
Matthew T. Gignilliat II, mgignilliat@gulf.net, visited
on Tuesday, December 22, 1998:
Message: I did not know that this went back to 1996. First I
heard of it was about the time his book came out. There is many
sites that provide both sides of the debate.
[Pensacola, United States]
Web Page: none
Matthew J.
Brauer, brauer@phylo.zo.utexas.ed, visited on
Saturday, December 26, 1998:
Message:
[Austin, United States]
Web Page:
http://www.esb.utexas.edu/phix/index.htm
Laurie Savage,
savage@netwit.net.au, visited on Wednesday, December 30,
1998:
Message: Anything that undermines the pompous vacuity of
"Cultural Studies" is great! The emperor has no clothes!
[, Australia]
Web Page: http://www.netwit.net.au/~savage