Alan Sokal, the physicist who in 1996 hoaxed a journal of cultural studies with an article he wrote as a jest that the journal published, called Prof.

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The court was told that Ms Spence met up with Sokal Zefraj again in 2009 after a chance meeting and went to Albania to marry him after breaking up with her partner Kate Reilly.

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Mrs Spence told the jury that she only realised that her daughter had married Albanian Sokal Zasfaj when she was looking for a CD in her car and came across a business card with the name Lynda Zefaj on it.

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Just as it would be reductive to claim that all foreign writings about France are reductive, so you cannot lump all French intellectuals together as jargon-spouting frauds, an assumption that at times seems behind the approach of Messrs Sokal and Bricmont.

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