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Confusious

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17. Postmodernist nonsense

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 07:00 AM

Jan 2014

Maybe you can tell how gravity is a "preconceived narrative?" Or maybe the reactions of elements or the elements themselves are a "preconceived narrative?"

The scientific method is nothing like what you describe, but I'm not surprised that you don't actually know how it works. Par for the course for a postmodernist.

Postmodernism is shit, and it has no clothes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/dawkins.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense

"Portraying science as impenetrably noble, constantly withstanding the barrage of ignoble anti-science, just isn't historically accurate."

After studying history for 30 years, Uh, yea it is.

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