<div>Yes, the reply has merit indeed. If I may quote its concluding paragraph (for the convenience of those of you who won't bother to click through the link Damien provided and read to the end):</div>
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<div>"At most, all that 'Gould' has done is misrepresent her own identity and the direct involvement of the CSIRO in some of the research projects she cites. She has done no more than demonstrate that, through the subterfuge of a bogus email address, an invented identity and CV, plus a series of deceitful email conversations with an editor, a writer can get an article published that contains a small amount of information that was not true, but which is otherwise entirely plausible. Rather than a hoax, her article is simply a piece of fraudulent journalism submitted to <i>Quadrant</i> under false pretences. It is no more a hoax than a dud cheque."</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Mike LaTorra<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Damien Broderick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">At 02:08 PM 1/14/2009 +1030, Emmers wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">A sokal-style hoax on australian conservative magazine Quadrant<br><br><a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20090106-How-Quadrant-swallowed-a-giant-hoax-.html" target="_blank">http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20090106-How-Quadrant-swallowed-a-giant-hoax-.html</a><br>
</blockquote><br>The QUADRANT reply is not without merit:<br><br><<a href="http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2009/01/this-hoax-a-dud-cheque" target="_blank">http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2009/01/this-hoax-a-dud-cheque</a>><br>
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