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I'm surprised that noone has mentioned the case of Igor and Grichka Bogdanov here. These were borderline literary theorists that actually did have a complete nonsense physics article published.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair



How are they borderline literary theorists? One of them has a PhD in theoretical physics, the other one in mathematics.


Maybe only sci/fi critics? Also I once tried to read their papers and it reminded me of experiences where I've tried to read lit-crit. There were some superficial stylistic similarities, between the two.




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