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johan gielis's avatar

In the 1990's Sokal, a physicist, published a bull shit paper in a postmodern journal. The Science community applauded big time (The science wars). But what happens now with journals like Nature, at the heart of science, is infinitely worse. My geometry professor told me once that Nature (and the like) are the Cosmopolitan of science (Cosmopolitan as placeholder for any popular trendy magazine). This focus on trendy subjects is well-known.

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