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I know I'm being unfair, but something about the writing style reminds me of this classic:

Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity

https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgre...

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Ben here -- you may be amused to know that Alan Sokal was my dad's freshman roommate in undergrad!

Awesome! We truly have Transgressed the Boundaries.

(And I'm curious... The way you said "Ben here" makes me wonder if I know you?)

(I think we was just introducing himself as Ben Spector, the lead author of the paper.)

D'oh! Thank you, and now I owe Ben an apology.

Ben, as in Benjamin Spector? (As noted below by sciurus.)

Please accept my sheepish apology for taking an unwarranted potshot at your writing style.

OTOH, if I hadn't, none of us would have known about that remarkable connection!

Only a matter of time until we start seeing bogus Hard Science papers like that, now that we've given the Social Text people the tools they need to take their revenge.

They will argue that we had it coming, and that it serves us right, and maybe they're not wrong.

Already been done: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/131003-boha...

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