Sokal Affair - Similar Scandals

Similar Scandals

• SCIgen program: a paper randomly generated by the SCIgen program was accepted without peer-review for presentation at the 2005 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI). The conference announced the prank of having accepted the article as not peer reviewed, despite none of the three assigned peer-reviewers having submitted an opinion about its fidelity, veracity, or accuracy to its subject. The three MIT graduate students who wrote the hoax article said they were ignorant of the Sokal Affair until after submitting their article.
• Bogdanov Affair: about theoretical physics, called a reverse-Sokal controversy
• Dr. Maarten Boudry, a philosopher in 2012 persuaded two theology conferences to accept meaningless word salad as serious theology.
• Jan Hendrik Schön: published 28 fraudulent papers in Nature, Science, and the Physical Review, which were logically consistent with the fabricated data
• Rosenhan experiment: the admission of healthy pseudo-patients to twelve psychiatric hospitals
• The Report from Iron Mountain: a hoax government think tank report
• Project Alpha: a hoax by James Randi perpetrated upon a psychic foundation
• Naked Came the Stranger: a 1969 novel by a group of American journalists attempting to satisfy, and thus expose, what they perceived as degraded standards in popular American literature; it succeeded, selling about 90,000 copies before the hoax was revealed.
• The Ern Malley affair: a similar hoax, in which deliberately nonsensical poems were accepted for publication by a popular modernist magazine
• Atlanta Nights: a hoax, by a group of professional authors, perpetrated upon a vanity press
• Disumbrationism: a modern art hoax
• Pierre Brassau: exposing art critics to "modern paintings" made by a chimpanzee
• Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments: a modernist poetry hoax
• Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960: a 1998 art world hoax, by William Boyd
• Samuel Beckett: in 1930, while teaching at Trinity College Dublin, Samuel Beckett read a learned paper in French on a Toulouse author named Jean du Chas, founder of a movement called Concentrism. Chas and Concentrism, however, were pure fiction, having been invented by Beckett to mock pedantry.
• Piotr Zak: an experiment by the BBC examining the standard of criticism of contemporary experimental music in 1961.
• John McLachlan, a professor of medical education, hoaxed the Jerusalem Conference on Integrative Medicine in 2010 with invented nonsense.