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That's a very badly written paper, to be honest. I mean, even knowing it was a hoax, I really expected that he somehow would have some speculative/creative content on the topic of "Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", whatever that could mean, but it's just a bunch of misplaced quotes and summaries.



Wasn’t that the point though? He was trying to show that complete nonsense could be published.


It was later repeated with even more nonsense papers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair


Probably, but a very dull/non-creative point nonetheless


> it's just a bunch of misplaced quotes and summaries.

Believe it or not, that's what the works on Scientific Communism looked like back in the USSR: bunch of quotes from Marx's and Lenin's writings, strewn together into a somewhat coherent narrative. Those quotes served the same roles that "proofs" and "data" serve in non-scholastic fields, you see: how would you know if you were right or wrong otherwise?




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