src: In an interview on the U.S. radio program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals would publish anything as long as it had "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known leftist thinkers.
tgt: Em entrevista para o programa All Things Considered (Considerando Tudo) na emissora de rádio Americana NPR (national public rádio), Sokal disse que se inspirou para submeter o falso artigo depois de ler Higher Superstition (1994), no qual os autores Paul R. Gross e Norman Levitt afirmam que alguns jornais humanísticos publicariam qualquer coisa contanto que tivesse “o pensamento esquerdista apropriado” e citasse (ou tenha sido escrito por) conhecidos pensadores esquerdistas.