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	Affair Encyclopedia Article @ Denounced.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		An affair is usually a euphemism for a situation where two people are involved in an illicit activity.
		An affair, in the political sense, typically refer to any kind of involvement in illicit business by any kind of public representatives, such as in the Watergate affair.
		An office romance, work romance, or affair is a romance that occurs between two people who work together in the same office, work location, or business, until recently generally believed to be unhelpful to the general welfare and effectiveness of businesses, and were thus discouraged and even prohibited by company policy.
	www.denounced.net /encyclopedia/Affair (702 words)

	DILACERATOR: Science Archives
		It may not have been a hoax, but it looks like the brothers Bogdanov did manage to publish nonsense papers on theoretical physics in peer-reviewed journals.
		The discussion on the Ars Technica forum as well as in sci.physics.research seemed to be trending toward the consensus that the papers by Igor and Grichka Bogdanov are indeed nonsense.
		One of the Bogdanov papers was published in Annals of Physics, another in Classical and Quantum Gravity, both of which are generally well-respected and respectable physics journals.
	qsi.cc /blog/archives/cat_science.html (717 words)

	Wikipédia et l'affaire Bogdanov : "encyclopédie libre" ou dictature virtuelle ?
		The incident has been termed a "reverse Sokal Affair", though Bogdanoff brothers, unlike Sokal, do not admit to hoax, but claim that their papers are scientific.
		Pour cette procédure, Snowspinner s’allie avec rbj, un intervenant omniprésent depuis le début de la guerre d’édition, particulièrement actif et (surtout) agressif envers les frères Bogdanov.
		Le fait est que, dès le 7 novembre, les dés (pipés) étaient jetés : le travail d’élaboration de l’article « Bogdanov affair » était dévolu à deux Wikipédiens méritants qui avaient déjà largement prouvé leur potentiel d’agressivité et d’hostilité envers les sujets.
	www.bogdanov.ch /affaire-bogdanov/wikipedia.htm (6920 words)

	Anamnesis : Weblog
		There were 2 important accounts on this Bogdanov matter, one by John Baez and one by Arkadiusz Jadczyk; both physicists.
		In an odd reversal Arkadi Bogdanov and his son Igor Bogdanov of mafia clan 03B (case 171-28-463) are killing some important people; murders that special agent Alpha needs to solve.
		Another odd indirect connection to the Bogdanov singularity is Jim Schnabel, who has written a scientific article on hoaxes and hoaxlike behaviour and their societal impact.
	www.jroller.com /page/darkcycle?entry=the_bogdanov_singularity_aka_the (1072 words)

	Bogdanov Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bogdanov Affair is an academic dispute regarding a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twin brothers Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (or Bogdanoff).
		The Bogdanovs' credentials to write on cosmology are based on Ph.D. degrees they obtained from the University of Bourgogne; Grichka Bogdanov received his degree in mathematics, and Igor Bogdanov received his in theoretical physics (in 1999 and 2002 respectively).
		The Bogdanov brothers were born to a Russian father and Austrian mother, both of whom came from aristocratic families that fled their homelands to settle in France, on August 29, 1949, in the commune of Saint-Lary, Gers, which is part of the Gascogne region of southern France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bogdanov_Affair (6287 words)

	The Chronicle: 11/15/2002: The Emperor's New Science: French TV Stars Rock the World of Theoretical Physics
		The Bogdanov affair has attracted so much interest among physicists in part because it seemed at first to be a case of just deserts.
		The Bogdanovs say that people have rejected their work because it is so unconventional.
		The Bogdanovs say that the statement on the back cover of the book was the fault of a "clumsy" editor who wrote that they had degrees when they were actually in the process of earning them.
	chronicle.com /free/v49/i12/12a01601.htm (2302 words)

	Bogdanovs - The Dialogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Bogdanovs have been described as "charismatic" and and "persuasive." One of the juicier details is that the Bogdanov twins actually have FANS - scores of beautiful, nubile young women - who attend their seminars thereby delighting the other physicists - distracting them from theoretical to applied pysics.
		Daniel (and others) hope that the Bogdanovs, with their fresh, innovative approach, as well as their broad spectrum relations in the real world, will pump new blood into a dying profession, popularizing physics, and most especially demonstrating that the adventures of the mind are the greatest challenges of all.
		Apparently the discussion about the Bogdanov defense went on for over two hours, more or less deadlocked, until finally it was decided that nobody could put their finger on why they felt ill-at-ease about the matter.
	www.cassiopaea.org /cass/bogdanov2.htm (10369 words)

	Wikinfo \| Sokal Affair
		The Sokal Affair refers to a famous hoax played by physicist Alan Sokal on the postmodernist humanities academics world.
		In 1996 Professor Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University, submitted a deliberately pseudoscientific paper for publication in a post-modernist academic journal of cultural studies.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sokal_Affair (729 words)

	New article about Wikipedia's abuse - The Wikipedia Review
		The subject is two French scientists and TV presenters who have been harrassed for 2 years by some people on Internet (Web and Usenet) ; these "harassers" have done all they could in order to make this article as bas as possible for their public image.
		The Bogdanovs tried to defend themselves and, exactly as you mentioned in the post above, they were treated very badly by some administrators, and then they were banned by the Arbitrator Committee.
		Laurence interviewed the Bogdanov brothers back on November 11 at the "Utopiales 2005" science fiction festival in Nantes.
	wikipediareview.com /index.php?showtopic=786&pid=4410&st=0&#entry4410 (752 words)

	Blogs Suck
		The Bogdanov papers were published in Il Nuovo Cimento, Annals of Physics, the Chinese Journal of Physics (!) and Classical and Quantum Gravity.
		Yeah, fine, the Bogdanovs didn't take advantage of the unrefereed channel to pass off phony work, but that doesn't mean that somebody smarter couldn't defraud the community through a lack of peer review.
		The Bogdanov brothers (or someone claiming to be them) have sent me and a number of other people an e-mail claiming that their paper is not in any way a hoax.
	aleph.blogspot.com /2002_10_27_aleph_archive.html (2335 words)

	Bogdanov Affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There is one more thing: until the investigation in the YUKOS affair is complete, we...
		In a seeming counter-point to the Sokal Affair, a pair of brothers (Igor and Grichka Bogdanov), managed to get several papers published to physics journals which, upon closer inspection, seem to be full of similar (to Sokal) pseudoscience under a layer of dense technical jargon.
		The brothers have since defended their theories (which deal with the area of Topological field theory), but the veracity of their work remains in doubt.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/b/bo/bogdanov_affair.html (119 words)

	Beyond string theory introduction
		But, I believe that most of the discussions of these affairs are missing some substantial points which shed a more reasonable and pragmatic light on the issues at hand.
		That idea is false, and it should be clear that once this fact is accepted, the affairs lose a lot of their interest.
		Thus the believe on which the discussion of the affairs is based is wrong, and the reasons for this believe are interesting and could be the subject of a social text.
	tena4.vub.ac.be /beyondstringtheory/faq.html (2700 words)

	The Bogdanov Brothers and Alan Sokal \| Donavan's News & Brews \| donavanhall.net
		The context of the Sokal parody reminded me of a recent (November 1, 2002) statement (a copy of this statement is provided by Baez) I had seen released by the Institute of Physics on an article published in its journal Classical and Quantum Gravity.
		It appears that the Bogdanov brothers may have pulled off a "reverse Sokal hoax" in the sense of fooling the science academy with a nonsense article.
		Not being an expert in quantum gravity, I can't weigh in on the details of the Bogdanov affair; however, events such as these do provide a starting point for conversation about issues that are generally left undiscussed.
	donavanhall.net /cgi/news/fullnews.cgi?newsid1057243165,65984, (362 words)

	Avant le Big Bang d'I/G Bogdanov - English index
		The controversy was in fact the natural follow-up to the "Affair" that briefly but sternly shook international newsgroups in 2002.
		The best-selling essay was a first step towards the new scientific career they undertook in 1992, when they devoted their time exclusively to research at the Bourgogne University until they obtained their PhDs (1999 and 2002).
		In June 2004, Igor and Grichka Bogdanov published Avant le Big Bang (Grasset), where they outline, for a general audience, their theory related to the zero scale of space-time.
	users.skynet.be /catherinev/engindex.htm (546 words)

	A very strange year (December 2002) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For the physics community it has certainly been the strangest and most disturbing year for quite some time, and the bizarre story of the Bogdanov brothers is a fittingly surreal way for 2002 to end.
		Schön was not the only physicist to be fired for misconduct this year: in June, Victor Ninov was dismissed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory after a committee found that he had fabricated data concerning the discovery of what would have been the heaviest element ever (element 118).
		Compared with these two episodes, the Bogdanov affair is fairly harmless.
	physicsweb.org /article/world/15/12/1 (671 words)

	Complexity, Innovation and Knowledge: The Bogdanov Singularity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		What the Bogdanovs actually did is publishing articles based on nonsense in some reputated scientific journals.
		The Bogdanovs did the opposite: They tried to show their fellows how easily one falls victim to a theory using promising, scientific pieces of the puzzle, rearranging them to concepts fitting the current mental models of the scientific community.
		December 13, 2004 03:20 PM I have tried to shed some (positive) light on the pseudo-scientific debate that has been developing on the web for months and is now referred to as the Bogdanov Affair.
	euromed.blogs.com /baets/2004/11/the_bogdanov_si.html (2051 words)

	PAM Bulletin: Vol. 30, No. 3
		It appears from statements of the Bogdanov brothers that the papers were not a hoax, but intended as serious science--or as others have said, an attempt at serious science.
		Formerly known as The Bogdanovs Affaire (or Bogdanov Affair).
		Grichka Bogdanov and Igor Bogdanov, "Spacetime Metric and the KMS Condition at the Planck Scale," Annals of Physics, 296 (2002), 90-97.
	units.sla.org /division/dpam/pam-bulletin/vol30/no3/physics.html (1917 words)

	The Bogdanov Affair - The Story
		Their point of view is that people should be better educated in science, that science is fantastic, that the study of mathematics enables a person to frame their ideas with precision.
		The Bogdanov Affaire started with a rumor that two brothers published at least 4 bogus papers in physics journals as a hoax.
		As a leader in the internet physics community, John seems to have felt that if the Bogdanov's were innocent of the rumors, the best way to deal with it would be to publicize the matter by bringing it up on an internet newsgroup frequented by physicists and mathematicians.
	quantumfuture.net /quantum_future/bogdanov1.htm (4805 words)

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	The Bogdanov Affair - Referee's Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Igor Bogdanov, Topological origin of inertia, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, 51 (2001), 1153-1236.
		Igor Bogdanov, The KMS state of spacetime at the Planck scale, Chinese Journal of Physics, 40 (2002).
		The latter two reports mainly confine themselves to summarizing the paper and correcting spelling errors, typos, and stylistic mistakes.
	math.ucr.edu /home/baez/bogdanoff/referee.html (456 words)

	Comments on 21378 \| MetaFilter
		This hasn't been a good year for physics, with the Schon affair, the element 118 affair, and a lower-profile case of plagiarism in Europhysics Letters.
		The most hilarious thing about the Social Text affair was one of the journal's editors suggesting that Sokal had first intended his article seriously and changed his mind later.
		In the Speed of Light article, I pointed out that John Baez's commentary on the Bogdanov Affaire was "googled" and at the top of the search for the terms "bogdanov affair" or "bogdanovs" etc. This was on November 5.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/21378 (5331 words)

	Things to Come - Now & Then (a Log)
		The Chronicle weighs in on the Bogdanov affair.
		Came across this today (via Robot Wisdom), which is serendipitous considering I'd just the other day been reconsidering the Sokal Affair (while reading a lengthy but well considered opinion piece I can't seem to find now).
		A little more digging unearthed this account of the new scandal, which closes tantalizingly with the author's admission that he can't disclose some new tidbit of information he's come across.
	thingstocome.net /log/2002_11_01_archive.html (2065 words)

	Open System for Geniuses - by Chronostalker :: Bogdanovs Gain a New Supporter :: June :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There are huge leaps of logic from one sentence to the next, clear examples of misunderstandings of basic ideas by the authors, etc. The problem isn’t their assumptions, but that they can’t construct a coherent argument and don’t understand the technical tools they are using.[…]
		The last sentence fits the conclusions stemming from the dialog in The Bogdanov Affair - The Dialogue Continues… It is clear from this dialog that the brothers do not know the precise definitions of the terms that they are using, neither they have a real understanding of what a “mathematical proof” should look like.
		Yet Peter Woit is not quite right when he writes that “The Bogdanov papers are different.
	opensys.blogsome.com /2005/06/19/bogdanovs-gain-a-new-supporter (351 words)

	the rabbit's blog
		Now, today I read about The Bogdanov Affair which is about two French brothers who may or may not have fooled everyone into thinking their work is for real.
		The comparison everyone is making is to Sokal's work (Scroll to Papers by Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair") who published parodies in social science journals as real work.
		His work has been taken by the scientist community as evidence that social sciences have some completely idiotic corners where a parody isn't recognized.
	blogs.salon.com /0001523/2002/11/07.html (242 words)

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