INTRODUCTION
BY MICHAEL SHERMER
In this issue we present a thoughtful reflection by Alan Sokal on the latest academic hoax perpetrated by James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, who managed to get published in the peerreviewed journal Cogent Social Sciences their nonsensical paper “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.” (http://bit.ly/2rt6FrF) On the day it was released online we published in eSkeptic their exposé of the hoax (http://bit.ly/2qAaR8n). Why?