Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Caso Sokal" in Portuguese language version.
Sokal got the idea for his "experiment" after reading Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt's Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). Gross and Levitt argued that the success of getting published in postmodern journals was based not on the quality of the work but rather on its "academic leanings – papers displaying the proper leftist thought, especially if written by or quoting well known authors, were being published in spite of their low quality.
