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The Sokol Squared Hoax

Sokol squared hoax is a play on the earlier chapter in academic history when physicist Alan Sokol perpetrated a famous hoax. He effectively, you correct me if I've got it wrong, but he submitted a paper that said we used to believe in reality, but now we know better. It was accepted and published and then he revealed his hoax in a second journal. And so there's a way in which the Sokol hoax has taken on a degree of respectability because of careful curation of its presentation.

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