1. Postmodernism is not gender studies is not women's studies
2. Sokal is an ******* with an ideological agenda as fierce as anyone in postmodernism
3. The journal that **** was published in wasn't even peer reviewed, and was
still almost rejected, being forced through by Sokal's insistence and position only
4. Hard science journals also
can have gibberish published.
One thing you need to understand: being published is in itself not that important. Academics care far more about
the quality of the journal than about whether a paper was published at all. Call me when Sokal gets his paper published in a leading journal.
So, yeah, if you commit academic fraud and scrape the bottom of the barrel for journals, you may just get something published where it shouldn't be. And if you're an ideologue seeking to create propaganda bits, you can make it seem like a really disturbing indictment. I don't think it's that important of a revelation.