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    <body><![CDATA[PoMo peeps always get so uptight about the hoax and this book, but they are absolutely right that if you don't know shit about science, don't fuckin' talk about it. Maybe ultimately Sokal and his friends don't get postmodernism, but the point is that they know enough to challenge PoMo's retardedness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62972669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started off as a prank when Sokal sent an article to Social Text which was full of nonsense, but used pomo's vague and pompous style and confirmed some of their social/political beliefs. The editors, excited that a physicist has converted to their side, promptly published the article. Once...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10902090">more...</a>]]></body>
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