Fashionable Nonsense oder: The conceptual Penis

Leseempfehlung (via Fefe): „The conceptual penis as a social construct” is a Sokal-style hoax on gender studies“. – „The androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial.“

„Subsequently, Sokal and the Belgian physicist Jean Bricmont noted in their 1997 book Fashionable Nonsense, that certain kinds of ideas can become so fashionable that the critical faculties required for the peer-review process are compromised, allowing outright nonsense to be published, so long as it looks or sounds a certain way, or promotes certain values.“

Ich musste auch an die „Online-Durchsuchung“ denken.