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With Sokal on the stand, Hodges presents a shipping manifest proving that the tape from the undamaged camera – the tape Sokal burned – was delivered to Sokal's office but disappeared, with footage that would likely have exonerated Childers. Taking the stand, Childers explains that he was the only surviving Marine able to see the crowd was ...
The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax, [1] was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text , an academic journal of cultural studies .
William Clark: January 4, 1982: October 17, 1983: 1 year, 286 days 12 Bud McFarlane: October 17, 1983: December 4, 1985: 2 years, 48 days 13 John Poindexter: December 4, 1985: November 25, 1986: 356 days – Alton Keel Acting [15] November 26, 1986: December 31, 1986: 35 days 14 Frank Carlucci: January 1, 1987 [16] November 23, 1987: 326 days ...
Sokal's obliviousness to this is an early indication of a complacency about his own views, and a lack of imagination about what others might be thinking, that undermines much of what follows. [5] Mermin states that "I would like to think that we are not only beyond Sokal's hoax, but beyond the science wars themselves. This book might be a small ...
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Yemen.. Before 1990, Yemen had consisted of two states: North Yemen and South Yemen.The United States had diplomatic relations with North Yemen since 1946.
Sokal (Ukrainian: Сокаль, IPA: ⓘ) is a city located on the Bug River in Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [ 1 ]
Sokal (Belarusian: Сокал, "falcon") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Alan Sokal (born 1955), American physicist, mathematician, and critic of postmodernism
Alan David Sokal (/ ˈ s oʊ k əl / SOH-kəl; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics .