Editing Sokal affair (section)

== Influence ==

=== Sociological follow-up study ===
In 2009, Cornell sociologist [[Robb Willer]] performed an experiment in which undergraduate students read Sokal's paper and were told either that it was written by another student or that it was by a famous academic. He found that students who believed the paper's author was a high-status intellectual rated it better in quality and intelligibility.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Willer |first1=Robb |last2=Kuwabara |first2=Ko |last3=Macy |first3=Michael |date=September 2009 |title=The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms |url=https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfiles/4570/false%20enforcement.pdf |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=115 |issue=2 |pages=451–490 |access-date=February 21, 2015 |doi=10.1086/599250 |pmid=20614762 |s2cid=16767512 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122755/https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/mygsb/faculty/research/pubfiles/4570/false%20enforcement.pdf |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Sokal III ===
In October 2021, the scholarly journal ''Higher Education Quarterly'' published a bogus article "authored" by "Sage Owens" and "Kal Avers-Lynde III". The initials stand for "Sokal III".<ref>{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Kelderman |title=Another 'Sokal' Hoax? The Latest Imitation Calls an Academic Journal's Integrity Into Question |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/another-sokal-hoax-the-latest-imitation-calls-an-academic-journals-integrity-into-question?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in |access-date=December 6, 2021 |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date=November 30, 2021 |quote=The authors are listed as “Sage Owens” and “Kal Avers-Lynde III”—initials that spell out SOKAL III. It didn’t take long for online sleuths to out it as a hoax.  The Higher Ed Quarterly paper appears to be the latest imitation of Sokal’s infamous 1996 prank}}</ref> The ''Quarterly'' retracted the article.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hequ.12360 |doi=10.1111/hequ.12360 |title=Retracted: Donor money and the academy: Perceptions of undue donor pressure in political science, economics, and philosophy |journal=Higher Education Quarterly |year=2021 |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=486–509 |s2cid=240018317}}{{Retracted|doi=10.1111/hequ.12360|intentional=yes}}</ref>

=== Love, Theoretically ===
The author [[Ali Hazelwood]] published the book ''Love, Theoretically'' in 2023, whose plot revolved around a character who performed a similar hoax, which the author stated to be inspired by this one. In the novel, the character is a physicist, and his false contribution is to a theoretical physics journal. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Hazelwood |first=Ali |title=Love, theoretically |date=2023 |publisher=Berkley Romance |isbn=978-0-593-33686-1 |location=New York}}</ref>