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"The problem with flat-earthers, creationists, homeopaths, and the rest is not so much that they have a duff conception of truth as that they have duff attitudes toward evidence."
- Simon Blackburn, Truth's Caper ($), The New Republic, Aug. 13, 2008, p. 40, at 43 (reviewing Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosphy and Culture, by Alan Sokal).
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D.C. why have you posted this URL for this book?
Posted by: Randy Meadows | August 14, 2008 at 08:41 PM
Because the book apparently reveals post-modernism as the fool's errand it is. I haven't read the book, but I liked what I saw in the New Republic review, and also in the Amazon.com user reviews.
Posted by: D. C. Toedt | August 14, 2008 at 08:59 PM