This is a list of scholarly publishing "sting operations" such as the Sokal affair.
The ethics of academic stings are disputed, with some arguing that it is morally equivalent to other forms of fraud.
[1] The hoax was revealed and halted after one of the papers in the England-based feminist geography journal Gender, Place and Culture was criticized on social media, and then on Campus Reform, which led a Wall Street Journal editorial writer to investigate and report on it.
[27] The paper, which was in the process of being retracted when the Wall Street Journal story broke, referred to dog parks as "petri dishes for canine rape culture".
The report also described a paper published in Affilia which contained a reworded excerpt from Mein Kampf.