Sokal Squared

Taking place over 2017 and 2018, Also known as the "grievance studies affair" was the project of a team of three authors—Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose—to highlight what they saw as poor scholarship and eroding criteria in several academic fields. Their totally bogus and unscientific fake research papers were accepted by academia EXPOSING Academic Grievance Studies, and the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism, and cultural constructivism.

Sokal Squared is all the evidence I needed to realize academic ideologies known as grievance studies is an unscientific cult-like established religion of criticism that is intolerant of all opposing worldviews.

Sokal Squared by Spiritual-Master January 21, 2022

Sokal Bias

A form of cognitive bias and meta-bias where you dismiss all criticism, questioning, and opposing positions by labeling them under a single, easily attackable category—typically "postmodernism" or "relativism"—inspired by the Sokal Affair. Sokal Bias is the intellectual equivalent of putting everything you disagree with in a box labeled "nonsense" and refusing to open it. It allows you to maintain your worldview without ever engaging with alternatives, to dismiss complex arguments with a single word, to strawman entire traditions of thought. Sokal Bias is particularly common in online debates, where "postmodernism" has become a catch-all insult for anything the speaker doesn't understand or doesn't like.

Example: "Every time she raised a critique, he called it 'postmodern nonsense.' Sokal Bias had reduced all complexity to a single label, all challenge to a single dismissal. She could have been making the most rigorous argument in the world; it wouldn't matter. The label did all the work."

Sokal Bias by Abzugal March 8, 2026

Bulver-Sokal Effect

The union of bulverism and sokalism as a unified cognitive and meta-cognitive bias, where you dismiss an argument by psychoanalyzing the arguer (bulverism) while simultaneously dismissing their entire field based on hoaxes or scandals (sokalism). The Bulver-Sokal Effect is a powerful one-two punch of intellectual dismissal: first, you explain why your opponent believes what they believe (they're postmodernists, they're relativists, they've been brainwashed by their field), and second, you declare their entire field invalid because of hoaxes or bad actors. The combination is nearly impossible to counter because it doesn't engage with arguments at all—it explains them away and dismisses their source simultaneously. The Bulver-Sokal Effect is the signature tactic of culture warriors who prefer dismissal to dialogue.

Example: "She tried to explain her position, grounded in contemporary gender theory. He deployed the Bulver-Sokal Effect: 'You only believe that because you've been indoctrinated by gender studies, and we all know gender studies is a pseudoscience because of that hoax paper.' Her arguments were explained away (bulverism) and her field dismissed (sokalism). There was no room for actual engagement."

Bulver-Sokal Effect by Abzugal March 8, 2026

sakalam 

adj. An inverse Filipino word for "malakas", meaning strong, powerful or tough.

Lance: Uy, matagal na ang Probinsyano, hindi pa namamatay si Cardo ah!
Bret: Cardo lang sakalam!

sakalam by ACNOLOGIA January 31, 2021

skoal ride 

Taking a long, aimless drive with no purpose other than chewing Skoal or other smokeless tobacco.

Lee, grab that spitter, its time for a skoal ride.

skoal ride by Leads! November 30, 2007

Skalalala 

A word used by only Asians apart from Russians. It’s is a word that would be racist if anyone apart from Asians say it.
The words meaning is lost but Asians who know of this word which are very less say it means “one of my people” and if any others apart from Asians use this word it would mean “one of my yellow and brown people” which is not a nice term to be used.

Kai Wong : hey skalalala
Mina Khan: hey skalala

Skalalala by Skalalala HQ March 30, 2019

Skoal Switcharoo 

In this sex move you will require a tin of Skoal (any flavor will do). Begin by packing a delightfully fat chew in your bottom lip. Proceed to have sex with your girlfriend, significant other, hooker, etc. Remove your penis for just a moment while you dip-spit on it. Now switch the insertion point from vaginal to oral. This will result in quite a surprise for the receiver.

"I pulled the Skoal Switcharoo on Tonya yesterday so she dumped me. Lets go dip."

Skoal Switcharoo by Kevin O'Shea September 27, 2005