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The papers are exactly what one would expect from reading other types of postmodernist "critique". The whole reason reviewers missed the blatant absurdity of their thesis is because standard buzzwords of the field hide meaning. This is what Orwell warned us about in Politics and the English Language.

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Respectfully, I think what you're doing here is taking what you know about the Sokal hoax and applying it directly to this hoax. It's hard to blame you, since that's what the media did as well. But, while the papers we're talking about were fabricated and often did make ludicrous arguments, they weren't "postmodernist critique", and, as I said, many of them included data and plausible methodology. Orwell wouldn't have much to say about them.

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