https://freerepublic.com/tag/dakescience/ en-us Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:43:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2558291/posts Since I am, by nature, a compassionate individual, I had been thinking of how we might Sokal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). It is for their own good. Alan Sokal: remember him? He’s the physicist who submitted the scam article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” to the oh-so-prestigious postmodern journal Social Text. Postmodernists are intellectuals who are so jealous of the success of real scientists, that they pretend that scientists’ accomplishments are nothing special. They are the sort of people who authoritatively state, “There is no truth,” or “‘Truth’ is a... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2558291/posts#comment Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:43:57 GMT