Higher superstitionNorman Levitt
Higher superstition
by Norman Levitt · first published 1997
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…why does the academic community so easily accommodate views so antithetical to a scientific world view. I believe that this at the heart of the questions raised by the original NYT piece. The book is Higher Superstition by Gross and Levitt. While interesting this book is erudite and seems directed to narrower audience than those mentioned above, expecting a well-read reader. [1] Rawls, A theory of justice. http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/067400078...…
on “Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal?” ↗See also The Sokal Affair on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair Quoting that entry: "Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals will publish anything as long as it has "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known…
on “Transgressing the Boundaries: Prof Phys Sokal's postmodernist sham paper (1996)” ↗…rest of the article; the history involved does a pretty good job of explaining what happened and why: "ALAN SOKAL: In the spring of 1994, I saw a reference to the book by Paul Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science. My first thought was, Oh, no, not another one of those right-wing diatribes that tell how the Marxist deconstructionist professors are taking over the…
on “Anatomy of a Hoax” ↗