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I’m unfamiliar with the particular rogues gallery you mention. And a google search for that term didn’t turn up anything obvious to me.

Can you elaborate?



Almost surely an allusion to Sokal's eponymous hoax: He published a hilarious gibberish paper in "Social Text", with the glorious title Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

Later, Sokal and Bricmont published a book, Intellectual Impostures (Fashionable Nonsense in the US) about postmodern "intellectuals" abusing scientific terminology (eg Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard); that would be the rogue gallery presumably.

It's an entertaining book, and I think those writers are guilty as charged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense


Possibly a reference to criticism of Kuhn in this book, among his other writings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense




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