From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Rock Brentwood  wrote:   
      
   > This (meaning: the whole affair that this posting was a small part of)   
   > has come to my attention, only now, because the twins involved in it   
   > have died together on the same day yesterday.   
   >   
   > On Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 11:43:50 PM UTC-5, John Baez wrote:   
   > > ... I hear that two brothers have managed to publish 3 meaningless   
   > > papers in physics journals as a hoax - and even get Ph.D. degrees   
   > > in physics from Bourgogne University in the process!   
   >   
   > on the "reverse Sokal" affair (as Baez elsewhere called it)   
   > that may or may not have been a hoax or may have been for real,   
   > because apparently nobody could make any sense out of what they   
   > were trying to say.   
      
   Not elsewhere, here!   
   John Baez started the "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?"   
   thread here in this very forum.   
      
   For reference purposes:   
   John's  considered opinion on it, after the fact, can be found at:   
      (2010)   
      
   It gives references to the original literature.   
      
   Jan   
      
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