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The making of “The Clam”

A phantom venereal disease with unusual symptoms

Fascinated with urban legends, rumors, folklore, myth, and the construction of consensus reality, a troubled loner creates a venereal disease and gives it a paper trail. Here's what happened…



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On This Day in SniggleryMay 9, 1996: Alan Sokal reveals that his Social Text article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” was a hoax. (See Modest Proposals for more info)