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The Sokal Affair was a prominent intellectual controversy that took place in the mid-1990s. It involved physicist Alan Sokal, who submitted a deliberately nonsensical article to a cultural studies journal, *Social Text*, to test the boundaries of what is considered acceptable scholarship in certain areas of the humanities.

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  1. Sociology of scientific knowledge
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