The Sokol Hoax

There was a sharp divide between what were known as the analytic philosophers who were honestly striving to create new knowledge in philosophy and solve problems. These areas of philosophy by the way sometimes go under the name of postmodernism or relativism. One is left feeling as though one lacks a certain level of intelligence if they don't understand that these papers that are being written anyway whatever the case Alan Sokol the physicist decided he would write a paper that was complete and utter nonsense from a physics perspective but using lots of physics terms. He tried to see whether he could get this nonsense published in an actual journal and he succeeded which has ever since been known as the Sokol hoax.