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HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
4. Not.Arctopithecines have decided...these are unfortunate defects, not new types
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 03:44 PM
Mar 2015

And point out the fault of adopting a microscientient mutant as zooanthropological holotypes

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
8. You ought to expand that theme a little & publish in in the journal _Social Text._
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 04:05 PM
Mar 2015


The article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", was published in the Social Text spring/summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. It proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. At that time, the journal did not practice academic peer review and it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.[3][4] On the day of its publication in May 1996, Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as "a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense ... structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics] he could find about mathematics and physics."[2]



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sokal affair

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
11. Yes I remember, it set off a firestorm
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 04:11 PM
Mar 2015

I was a managing editor of a scientific journal. Everything really clamped down on the potential obfuscation coming from the use of erudition and the notion of "this must be good...because it's way over my head"


None the less I'm sort of fond of expression such as "Hyperbolic displays overcome epistemic resistance." Because I found that to actually work in the classroom.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
16. Are you sure? Let's examine their properties!
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 06:16 PM
Mar 2015

- primarily used to extract gold from common ore
- impossible to pin into a single position
- Highly toxic in any dosage
- Toxicity leads to mental impairment
- nearly impossible to remove from an environment when introduced

They are clearly mercury.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
18. First species - Australopithecus Moronicus Maximus.
Sun Mar 22, 2015, 06:53 PM
Mar 2015

Second species - Homogeneous Erectus Minuscule.

Any other GOP critter you need identified?

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