Sokal et al

[Monte Davis]

 > I'd like the autocratic demeanor that often rains down on the heads of those
who look at life using different paradigms than physicists do and dare
challenge "progress" and "science" to  be exposed for what it is.| <

But don't you see there's a very similar _de haut en bas_ tone here, in that 
"exposed for what it is"?

Please don't conflate "science" and "progress." The latter -- whoo, talk about
your social constructs!! I don't find it uncomfortable to believe that (1) natural
science is cumulative and in that sense progressive, while (2) the notion that 
"science brings us progress and that's a Good Thing" is a mega-snowjob that needs 
all the challenging critical attention it can get.