Substantive merits of these fields aside, what strikes me about stunts like this is their fundamental meanness. No attempt to intellectually engage with ideas you disagree with; just trolling for lulz. I wish we could be better.https://www.chronicle.com/article/Sokal-Squared-Is-Huge/244714/#.W7UjAr8DJ6w.twitter …
Get back to me when you can find a postmodern humanities scholar who engages seriously with sexual selection theory or behavior genetics. Been waiting 30 years so far.....
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"The trouble is that Darwinism had a bad reputation among those reared in the humanities, not b/c of Darwin and his ideas per se...As a result, they perceive any attempt to rehabilitate the biological roots...as antipathetic" - A. Stevens
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Isn't the postmodern postulate that knowledge is power also a prediction of sexual selection theory?
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I think this project productively demonstrates how weak the thinking base of some sectors of academia have become. Really powerfully illustrates how some teachers, who impact young minds, lack quality and seemingly common sense.
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Furthermore, assuming this is a serious problem, what better way to illuminate the nature and extent of the problem? Finally, what other method would possibly expose this problem so dramatically, clearly and urgently?
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Sure. Whatever. Why don’t you find me an evolutionary psychologist who engages seriously with dog rape in Portland from a black feminist perspective. That’s right—you can’t.
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