Sokal again. Drat!

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

Mildly related:  In an expository writing course I've taught for about 3
years, we usually read Gould on Rifkin, after first reading the first Ch.
of _Brave New World_.  Students are usually extremely interested in *new*
ways of thinking about "science."  I mean EXTREMELY.  Just a note for
teachers.  Oh, and they always end up loving Gould and feeling cheated by
Rifkin.  I can't think of a single exception.

Bonnie



> Or try Steven Jay Gould.  Part of his crusade against The Bell
Curve
> and related anthropometricisms is his crusade against the obfuscation
> and obscurity of bad science...
>
> > Date:          Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:08:11 -0400 (EDT)
> > From:          David Nevin Friedman <namdeirf at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
> > Subject:       Re: Re[2]: Sokal again. Drat!
> > To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> > You want good science writers for the layman?  Read Kip Thorne's work or
> > Carl Sagan's.
> > From the point of view of a an English major peripherally interested in
> > scientific inquiry and its impact on the literary world, Thorne and Sagan
> > are excellent dispenser's of their own expertise.
> >
> > David Friedman
> > namdeirf at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
> >
> > Ignorance breeds complicity.
> >
> >
> >
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Bonnie Lenore Surfus
Department of English
University of South Florida
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/surfus/lenore.html