http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/pseudoscience_rev.pdf
- idea: postmodernism attacks science by claiming that all observations are inherently subjective andn unsupported by evidence; pseudoscience attacks science by claiming subjective, unsupported assertions to be supported by the method andn courpus of scientific thought. One robs science of credibility, the other attempts to profit from scientific credibility due to its success in predicting physical phenomena.
- Usually, knowledge of the field in question is enough to highlight pseudoscience.. and postmodernism (by his definition) can be spotted by its claims/lack thereof.
- claims Judeanism & Christianity contain sections of pseudoscience
- (pope) John Paul II is a pseudoscientist?
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