Sokal again. Drat!

[grip at netcom.com]

On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU wrote:

> Paul M. writes:
> 
<A very long diatribe against scientists claiming insights to UNIVERSAL 
TRUTH. Snipped to save space.>

I wonder how many of the types of articles that send you screaming up the 
wall are written by first rate scientists and how many are written by 
scientific acolytes who can't hack it as a practicing scientist but 
can produce lots of material for the layman to read.

Do you find the writings of say, Roger Penrose or Steven Weinberg to be 
of this type? (I mean the writings meant for a moderately educated 
public, not particularly technical.) I'm curious because there are a lot of 
hack "science" writers out there and some of them make particularly dumb 
claims.

grip