&gt; <i>I assume the panel was successful, although I never heard from the organizer or any of the other panelists inquiring why I didn’t make it.</i><p>It would be interesting to know what the organizers themselves thought of the abstract, because the editors&#x27; response to the Sokal article was quite amazing [1, 2].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;SocialText_reply_LF.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;SocialText_reply_LF.pdf</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;reply.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.physics.nyu.edu&#x2F;sokal&#x2F;reply.html</a>