Re: the arrogance of postmodern mumbo jumbo

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Paul Gallagher wrote:
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> In <51mglo$2ob9@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de> bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TOK ) writes:
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> >Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:
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> >: I'm still waiting for a representative of the campus left to reply to
> >: this. The silence is deafening.
>
> >Well, Lenny bit. Did you expect him not to?
>
> You bright young men seemed to have missed that there were several
> *thousand* posts on this subject in alt.postmodern back when
> the hoax happened. Look in www.dejanews.com under Sokal. Look at Sokal's
> web page for an archive of some posts.

I don't read alt.postmodern, but I did see the distribution of posts on
this topic in dejanews. I was surprised that there wasn't a single
reference to Sokal from this newsgroup. This seemed odd, considering
the amount of discussion on cultural bias in science.

BTW, I may be bright (thanks), but I'm not young.

Steve Barnard

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