(September 10, 2009 at 5:51 am)theVOID Wrote: You mean this article in Nature 1998? It's damn brilliant
And this quote Dawkins gives from Peter Medawar, "Style has become an object of first importance, and what a style it is! For me it has a prancing, high-stepping quality, full of self-importance; elevated indeed, but in the balletic manner, and stopping from time to time in studied attitudes, as if awaiting an outburst of applause. It has had a deplorable influence on the quality of modern thought..." sums it up perfectly!
In short it is mental masturbation or as Luke brilliantly put it, intellectual wankery.
And this (from Dawkins himself) is genius:
As is now rather well known, in 1996 Sokal submitted to the US journal Social Text a paper called "Transgressing the boundaries: towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity". From start to finish the paper was nonsense. It was a carefully crafted parody of postmodern metatwaddle.
I am unsurprised that Jon Paul, Arcanus & Frodo so love this kind of bollocks!
Thank you posting the link Void,.
Kyu
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