| Revision as of 19:26, 25 July 2005 edit82.123.178.154 (talk)No edit summary← Previous edit | Revision as of 23:36, 1 August 2005 edit undo82.57.3.20 (talk) Reversing Igor Bogdanov (ATuileries-152-1-38-154.w82-123.abo.wanadoo.fr) cancelling of criticsNext edit → | ||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| During 2001-2002 popular French TV presenters Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff published several papers, consisting of incoherent stream of buzzwords of modern physics, in five physics journals. The incident has been termed a "reverse Sokal Affair", though Bogdanoff brothers, unlike Sokal, do not admit to hoax, but claim that their papers are scientific. They even used "research" reported in those papers to get doctorate degrees in theoretical physics from from the University of Bourgogne in Paris, France. | |||
| In 2002, a pair of brothers (Igor and Grichka Bogdanov), managed to get several papers published to physics journals which were wrongfully considered by a French physicist, Max Niedermaier, as a hoax similar (to Sokal) pseudoscience under a layer of dense technical jargon. Max Niedermaier retracted publicly and the brothers have since defended their theories (which claim to deal with the area of topological field theory), and the veracity of their work seems to have recently gained new supporters among certain researchers in theoretical physics : http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/06/bogdanoff-papers.html. | |||
| ==External links == | ==External links == | ||
Revision as of 23:36, 1 August 2005
During 2001-2002 popular French TV presenters Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff published several papers, consisting of incoherent stream of buzzwords of modern physics, in five physics journals. The incident has been termed a "reverse Sokal Affair", though Bogdanoff brothers, unlike Sokal, do not admit to hoax, but claim that their papers are scientific. They even used "research" reported in those papers to get doctorate degrees in theoretical physics from from the University of Bourgogne in Paris, France.
External links
- A discussion of the controversy.
- Additional discussion with various people related to the brothers academically.
 | This science article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |