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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Literary Theory as Humor: Alan Sokal's Hoax
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In article <4nq3cl$76@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
vpiercy@ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu (Van Piercy) writes:

> I suppose a source of Sokal's upset is the decreased stature of science in
> our culture--so he goes after the non-science academics, who we know are
> not hampered by enormous amounts of respect and corporate industry jobs
> after they graduate.  It's queer to worry about the public confidence in
> science while science training is already largely vocational and
> technical, and the scientists' run for lucrative industry jobs--pursuing
> Truth for the highest bidder--has probably done more to take the shine off
> the scientist-as-culture hero image as anything the "Radical Left" 
> "nihilist postmodernist" professors and their mighty progeny have done. 
> 
> Van

Very well said.



David
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