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Originally Posted by demonrail666
did you read his book, 'Beyond the Hoax'?
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no
i read his very funny paper published in some magazine-- the bullshit one
supreme fucking comedy!
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
That really aggravated me. This whole schtick about the humanities misunderstanding the sciences that only ended up showing his own misunderstanding of the humanities.
I'm all in favour of giving bullshitters a good flogging, but Sokal just comes across as a rather misinformed critic of a discipline he doesn't know very much about. C.P. Snow's book 'The Two Cultures' is a great account of the divide between the sciences and the humanities that allow those that Sokal criticises to flourish, as well as people like Sokal himself.
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i guess so, or i'll take your word for it, is what i mean, but i've read enough pseudo-scientific crap in the humanities, as well as absurd critiques of science, that i'm willing to cut him some slack just because.
now that c.p. snow book-- that sounds like something i'd read. i'll look for it.