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This is more scary than funny. What is even worse, is that the 'fact-less science' folk are winning a war we didn't even know we were in. This suggests that whatever joke the author felt he was committing, was regrettably on him (and the rest of us)!

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Sokal notes, "While my method was satirical, my motivation is utterly serious," and goes on to describe his anger and sadness. Indeed, he doesn't describe his effort as a hoax, but rather as an experiment. He expresses the intent of exposing intellectual laziness and ideologically-driven reasoning (specifically by the Left, with which he self-associates), so the motivation appears to be more than humor, and I'm confident he would agree with your assessment of "more scary than funny."

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